Abdelouahid Souala, MD
Surgery · Sheboygan, WINPI 1033600721
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $5,428 of the $7,249 with a category attached, or 74.9%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 31.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,485, 2.6 times the $1,325 reported in 2022.
Across 36 payments — averaging $201.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Davol Inc.$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$91
- Johnson & Johnson$52
- plus $31 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,42875%
- Food & beverage$82211%
- Education$1,00014%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $2,276 |
| Davol Inc. | 19 | $2,007 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,468 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $1,325 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $52 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $31 |
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.
- LINX Reflux Management System$1,417
- AdvantageRib$1,249
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,241
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- Phasix Mesh$614
How this compares
$7,249 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 499 surgery providers in Wisconsin.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 33 | $54 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Sheboygan
- Emiko HayakawaSheboygan$18K
- Peter UllrichAppleton$18M
- Matthew GoldblattMilwaukee$594K
- Raymond GeorgenNeenah$325K
- Cynthia GeocarisGreen Bay$263K
- Rana HigginsMilwaukee$148K
- Mustafa BadruddujaKenosha$134K
- Geoffrey RoelantEau Claire$118K
- Peter JanuChilton$113K
- Manfred ChiangBrookfield$110K
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.