Aaron Hoffman
Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1124248190
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $117,288 of the $184,981 with a category attached, or 63.4%. Standard Bariatrics, Inc. accounts for 69.6% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $80,379 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $2,372 in 2025. Among surgery 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 199 payments — averaging $929.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Standard Bariatrics, Inc.$129K
- Teleflex LLC$46K
- Asensus Surgical, Inc.$6K
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- Teleflex Medical Incorporated$746
- Intuitive Surgical$431
- plus $727 from 11 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $8353.67 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.
- Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$17K
- Johnson & Johnson$6K
- Standard Bariatrics, Inc.$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$117,28863%
- Speaking & faculty fees$33,00018%
- Travel & lodging$28,00515%
- Food & beverage$3,9832%
- Other$2,7051%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 116 | $128,679 |
| Teleflex LLC | 39 | $46,272 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $5,600 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $2,525 |
| Teleflex Medical Incorporated | 5 | $746 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 10 | $431 |
| Activ Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $117 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $106 |
| Stryker | 1 | $96 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| GT Metabolic Solutions Inc | 1 | $59 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $28 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $23 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $17 |
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.
How this compares
$184,981 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
Other surgery in Dallas
- Sachin KukrejaDallas$640K
- Walton TaylorDallas$369K
- Steven LeedsDallas$193K
- Lam leDallas$180K
- Bola AladegbamiDallas$91K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.