Yujing Li
Anesthesiology · Houston, TXNPI 1922079698
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,827 of the $6,564 with a category attached, or 88.8%. 29 manufacturers reported payments, led by Merz North America, Inc. at 25.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,365, 4.3 times the $553 reported in 2019. Among anesthesiology clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 220 payments — averaging $29.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merz North America, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Abbott$764
- Amgen$459
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$326
- Boston Scientific$323
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$73711%
- Food & beverage$5,82789%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merz North America, Inc. | 15 | $1,690 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 53 | $1,009 |
| Abbott | 28 | $764 |
| Amgen | 22 | $459 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 14 | $326 |
| Boston Scientific | 15 | $323 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 4 | $317 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 15 | $255 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $171 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $165 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $112 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $111 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $103 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $86 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $73 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Merck | 3 | $64 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $40 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $30 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $14 |
| AstraZeneca | 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.
- XEOMIN$1,229
- Confirm Rx$176
- Cleerly Ischemia$131
- Cleerly Labs$131
- DAXI$120
- PRALUENT$103
How this compares
$6,564 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,899 anesthesiology providers in Texas.
Other anesthesiology in Houston
- Tong GanHouston$700K
- Gabriel MenaHouston$494K
- Harold MinkowitzHouston$224K
- Eric ChanHouston$128K
- John ZakiHouston$109K
- Jamal HasoonHouston$56K
- Barbara OrlandoHouston$42K
- Byron BakerHouston$41K
- Javier LasalaHouston$17K
- Airat AgbetobaHouston$16K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.