Alexi Bloom
Surgical Critical Care · Houston, TXNPI 1497140545
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (43.2%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 76.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $7,136 and has fallen 86.3% since, to $977 in 2024.
Across 60 payments — averaging $195.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$1K
- Haemonetics Corporation$526
- BD$504
- Davol Inc.$136
- KCI USA, Inc.$76
- plus $18 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,07043%
- Food & beverage$2,64022%
- Education$4,00034%
- Gifts$300%
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 | 24 | $8,985 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 22 | $1,495 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 5 | $526 |
| BD | 5 | $504 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $136 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$5,485
- DAVINCI XI$3,000
- INTEGRA$1,955
- PRIMATRIX$958
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$652
- Phasix Mesh$391
- SURGIMEND$307
- TCC-EZ$307
- NEURAGEN$307
- MICROMATRIX$307
- TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$237
How this compares
$11,740 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 104 surgical critical care providers in Texas.
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.
Other surgical critical care in Houston
- Samir AwadHouston$1.6M
- Robert SouthardHouston$215K
- Rondel AlbaradoHouston$197K
- Daniel BonvilleHouston$28K
- Martin ZielinskiHouston$14K
- Subhasis ChatterjeeHouston$13K
- Melissa StewartHouston$12K
- Celia LedetHouston$9K
- Todd HuzarHouston$9K
- Natasha BeckerHouston$8K
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.