Banafsheh Baharloo, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1326307794
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 314 payments — averaging $35.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5K
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
- Pylant Medical$1K
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$709
- Globus Medical$336
- Smith+Nephew$246
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5865%
- Food & beverage$9,42785%
- Education$1,12510%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker(2 entities) | 102 | $5,484 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 99 | $2,143 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $1,115 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 35 | $709 |
| Globus Medical | 11 | $336 |
| Smith+Nephew | 13 | $246 |
| Nevro Corp. | 9 | $187 |
| Merck | 10 | $118 |
| Bioventus LLC | 5 | $97 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $96 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 5 | $87 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $77 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $39 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $37 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 1 | $33 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $32 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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
$11,139 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 684 foot & ankle 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ammonium Lactate | 96 | $2,598 |
| Nystatin | 101 | $1,652 |
| Ciclopirox | 36 | $1,165 |
| Gabapentin | 53 | $529 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 22 | $463 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 31 | $324 |
| Ketoconazole | 16 | $302 |
| Cefdinir | 14 | $257 |
| Allopurinol | 19 | $231 |
| Mupirocin | 33 | $229 |
| Celecoxib | 22 | $208 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 11 | $207 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 13 | $155 |
| Meloxicam | 47 | $76 |
| Levofloxacin | 12 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Houston
- Kevin VarnerHouston$1.1M
- Sherman NaglerHouston$602K
- Abdul NurudeenHouston$404K
- Orlando RiveraHouston$384K
- Brian LepowHouston$311K
- William GranberryHouston$155K
- Yueh LeeHouston$95K
- Julie LesterHouston$94K
- Jason AhueroHouston$76K
- Nathaniel AlabiHouston$71K
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.