Alexander Hou, MD
Vascular Surgery · Edgewood, KYNPI 1396820809
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $18,486 of the $22,393 with a category attached, or 82.6%. It is spread thinly across 43 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,886, 3.1 times the $2,196 reported in 2019.
Across 292 payments — averaging $76.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endologix LLC$5K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$3K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$3K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$838
- plus $6K from 37 others
Across 39 payments — averaging $2107.11 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.
- Inari Medical, Inc.$57K
- Stryker$25K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,90717%
- Food & beverage$18,48683%
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.
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.
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$3,955
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$3,955
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$3,941
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$2,715
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$2,038
- Torus Stent Graft System$1,287
- ENDOCROSS Device$1,287
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$1,103
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$861
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$647
- Clot Management$516
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$465
- VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis$397
- Heli-FX EndoAnchor System$342
- ARTIX MT$323
- LIMFLOW SYSTEM$305
- Cook Medical Thoracic$276
- ARTEGRAFT VASCULAR GRAFT$267
- Phasix Mesh$265
- XARELTO$237
How this compares
$22,393 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 72 vascular surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 60 | $51,435 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 46 | $46,869 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 300 | $2,247 |
| Cilostazol | 30 | $555 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 41 | $144 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $12 | $51,43560 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $838 | $46,86946 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 72 vascular surgery providers in Kentucky.
Other vascular surgery in Edgewood
- Edward CaldwellEdgewood$21K
- David KimEdgewood$12K
- Douglas RodgersEdgewood$11K
- Kevin MartinEdgewood$9K
- Steve ChausseEdgewood$5K
- Alhasan SedeeqEdgewood$4K
- Amit DwivediLouisville$406K
- Igor VoskresenskyLexington$99K
- Nick AbediLexington$95K
- Abindra SigdelLouisville$84K
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.