Annabella Olson
Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1295230324
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 112 payments — averaging $68.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$773
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$470
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$305
- Davol Inc.$238
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,09614%
- Food & beverage$5,56373%
- Education$1,00413%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 26 | $2,390 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 32 | $1,299 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 9 | $773 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 7 | $470 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $305 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $238 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $226 |
| Abbott | 2 | $221 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $187 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $179 |
| Stryker | 1 | $159 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $124 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $123 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $121 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $117 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $109 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $104 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $84 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $52 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $23 |
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.
- ENDURANT IIS$1,582
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$749
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$699
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$699
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$422
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$300
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$300
- Endurant$237
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$187
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$159
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$152
- ESPRIT$144
- Tridyne Vascular Sealant$136
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$124
- OUTBACK$123
- OFIRMEV$121
- PURAPLY WOUND MATRIX$110
- Azur CX Detachable$104
- PROGREAT$104
- ANGIO-SEAL$104
How this compares
$7,664 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $14 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Houston
- Funda MericHouston$20.6M
- Isidoro WienerHouston$850K
- Mark HobeikaHouston$462K
- Joseph CoselliHouston$382K
- James SuliburkHouston$161K
- Richard KnightHouston$147K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Lloyd StegemannCorpus Christi$1.9M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Erik WilsonBellaire$1.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.