Has Andre Son, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,232 in general payments to Andre Son, MD across 139 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 Andre Son, 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 Andre Son, 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.

Andre Son, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Galveston, TXNPI 1083155303

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,232in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 139 payments — averaging $73.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$3K
Abbott$2K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
Atricure, Inc.$859
Medtronic$808
Cook Medical LLC$641
plus $2K from 12 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,03720%
Food & beverage$7,75476%
Education$4414%

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Edwards Lifesciences	27	$2,738
Abbott	37	$1,761
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	11	$1,342
Atricure, Inc.	9	$859
Medtronic	16	$808
Cook Medical LLC	11	$641
Bolton Medical Inc	8	$581
Zimmer Biomet	4	$408
Abiomed	4	$344
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	3	$244
Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical)	1	$215
Medinc Of Texas	2	$81
Conmed Corporation	1	$67
Terumo Medical Corporation	1	$41
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	1	$41
Baxter Healthcare	1	$22
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$20
EMD Serono, Inc.	1	$19

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

$10,232 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$41,375

Medicare patients

Services billed

132

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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Galveston

Robert SmithPlano$2.9M
Michael ReardonHouston$2.7M
William RyanPlano$2.1M
Faraz KerendiAustin$1.6M
Robert HebelerDallas$1.2M
William BrinkmanPlano$1.2M
Robert RipleyHouston$817K
Michael MackPlano$796K
Katherine HarringtonPlano$723K
Danny RamzyHouston$620K

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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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