Angel Cho, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Houston, TXNPI 1720152754
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (30.3%), speaking fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 30 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 34.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,414 and has fallen 83.5% since, to $894 in 2025. Among obstetrics & gynecology clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 138 payments — averaging $110.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Shield Therapeutics Inc$4K
- Asensus Surgical, Inc.$872
- Acessa Health Inc.$629
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$622
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$595
- plus $3K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$250%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,12527%
- Travel & lodging$2,44916%
- Food & beverage$4,62030%
- Education$4,03426%
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 | 15 | $5,236 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 6 | $4,284 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $872 |
| Acessa Health Inc. | 2 | $629 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 16 | $622 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 12 | $595 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 6 | $395 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 9 | $247 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $235 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $226 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 9 | $199 |
| Amgen | 3 | $187 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 10 | $178 |
| Gynesonics, Inc. | 3 | $177 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $162 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $142 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $125 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 3 | $125 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $119 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 2 | $119 |
| Bayer | 3 | $72 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 3 | $52 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $50 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 1 | $42 |
| Biogen | 1 | $27 |
| Meditrina | 1 | $21 |
| Organon | 2 | $19 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$15,253 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,099 obstetrics & gynecology 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 obstetrics & gynecology in Houston
- George KuhnHouston$244K
- Daisy AyimHouston$188K
- Shannon WestinHouston$176K
- Asha BhalwalHouston$151K
- Nicole TranHouston$133K
- Sandra HurtadoHouston$123K
- Alvaro MontealegreHouston$92K
- Patti RossHouston$72K
- Damla KarsanHouston$58K
- Christopher JayneHouston$52K
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.