Has Alberto Pena, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $58,622 in general payments to Alberto Pena, MD across 103 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Alberto Pena, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Alberto Pena, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Alberto Pena, MD

Colon & Rectal Surgery · McAllen, TXNPI 1467407601

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $42,005 of the $58,622 with a category attached, or 71.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 96.0% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $21,959 and has fallen 92.5% since, to $1,654 in 2025. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$58,622in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 103 payments — averaging $569.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$56K
Medtronic$556
Axonics, Inc.$520
Boston Scientific$281
Baxter Healthcare$224
Davol Inc.$174
plus $568 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$8,50014%
Travel & lodging$3,2846%
Food & beverage$4,8338%
Education$42,00572%

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	56	$56,299
Medtronic(2 entities)	23	$556
Axonics, Inc.	10	$520
Boston Scientific	2	$281
Baxter Healthcare	2	$224
Davol Inc.	2	$174
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$115
BD	1	$98
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	1	$85
Amgen	1	$84
Vifor Pharma, Inc.	1	$79
MML US, Inc.	1	$46
Conmed Corporation	1	$36
Johnson & Johnson	1	$26

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

$58,622 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 200 colon & rectal surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$99,636

Medicare patients

187

Services billed

426

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
Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine	150	$4,903
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	268	$1,777
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	115	$1,655
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	97	$1,512
Metronidazole	75	$838
Neomycin Sulfate	58	$300
Ketorolac Tromethamine	18	$273
Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	13	$165
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	20	$155
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	16	$133
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	26	$87
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	12	$47
Ondansetron Hcl	26	$43
Tramadol Hcl	18	$43

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other colon & rectal surgery in McAllen

Dustin LuebbersMcAllen$49K
Thiru LakshmanAustin$756K
Diego Marines CopadoHouston$462K
Bidhan DasSugar Land$350K
Christopher de JesusSan Antonio$201K
Farshid AraghizadehFort Worth$181K
Jefferson HurleyIrving$163K
Erik AskenasyHouston$142K
Eric HaasHouston$140K
Robert JacobsonDallas$125K

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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.

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