Yago Nieto, MD
Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1245243948
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $1,080 of the $1,145 with a category attached, or 94.4%. Novo Nordisk Health Care AG accounts for 94.4% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,080 and has fallen 97.7% since, to $25 in 2023.
Across 4 payments — averaging $286.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk Health Care AG$1K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$26
- Seagen Inc.$25
- Sanofi$14
Across 10 payments — averaging $166,383 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AstraZeneca$1.1M
- Novartis$530K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,08094%
- Food & beverage$656%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk Health Care AG | 1 | $1,080 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Seagen Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $14 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- NovoSeven RT$1,080
How this compares
$1,145 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 41 | $750 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.