Angel Tamez, MD
Surgery · McAllen, TXNPI 1215956834
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 108 payments — averaging $109.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kerecis Limited$5K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$336
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$221
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,94116%
- Food & beverage$9,73782%
- Education$1371%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kerecis Limited | 10 | $4,711 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 34 | $2,194 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 26 | $1,530 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 15 | $1,331 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $336 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $221 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $220 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $211 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $123 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $121 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $115 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $114 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $93 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $63 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $19 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$8,128
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$7,297
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$4,037
- Kerecis SurgiClose$975
- Kerecis Omega3 Wound$834
- Kerecis Omega3 Surgibind$834
- Da Vinci Surgical System$611
- PROPATEN Vascular Graft$455
- INTEGRA$318
- Megadyne$314
- ACUSEAL Vascular Graft$287
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$275
- Kerecis GraftGuide$244
- EVARREST$212
- Echelon Flex$212
- OMNIGRAFT$159
- SURGIMEND$159
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$159
- Enseal$146
- STRATAFIX$137
How this compares
$11,815 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,830 surgery 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 surgery in McAllen
- Diego CamachoMcAllen$214K
- Carlos Palacio LascanoMcAllen$171K
- Funda MericHouston$20.6M
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Lloyd StegemannCorpus Christi$1.9M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Erik WilsonBellaire$1.2M
- Thomas SerenaShenandoah$1.2M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$924K
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.