Has Baran Sumer, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $90,662 in general payments to Baran Sumer, MD across 102 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 Baran Sumer, 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 Baran Sumer, 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.

Baran Sumer, MD

Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck · Dallas, TXNPI 1699887232

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $70,900 of the $90,662 with a category attached, or 78.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 88.6% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $36,759 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $48 in 2025. Among plastic surgery within the head & neck 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.

$90,662in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 102 payments — averaging $888.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$80K
Sanofi$10K
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$253
Covidien LP$167
Kls-martin L.p.$90

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$9,04810%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,9502%
Travel & lodging$7,5118%
Food & beverage$1,2531%
Education$70,90078%

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	86	$80,321
Sanofi	8	$9,831
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	6	$253
Covidien LP	1	$167
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$90

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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$78,950
LIBTAYO$9,701

How this compares

$90,662 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 50 plastic surgery within the head & neck providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$57,277

Medicare patients

Services billed

207

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
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	14	$561
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	14	$257
Promethazine Hcl	13	$218
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	13	$138
Methylprednisolone	14	$135
Chlorhexidine Gluconate	17	$65

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other plastic surgery within the head & neck in Dallas

Evan BealeDallas$4K
Andrew DayDallas$4K
Brittny TillmanDallas$2K
James SeawardDallas$1K
Larry MyersDallas$468
John TruelsonDallas$111
Sean BoutrosHouston$335K
Anthony BrissettHouston$25K
Jack HuaRichmond$25K
Frank GlatzMcAllen$23K

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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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