Bassam Helou, MD
Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1407864069
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 13 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $188, more than ten times the $11 reported in 2020. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $1,847.
Across 13 payments — averaging $22.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Innovation Technologies Inc$66
- Boston Scientific$38
- Conmed Corporation$36
- Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.$25
- KARL Storz Endoscopy-america$24
- Neuros Medical, Inc.$24
- plus $80 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$293100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $66 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $38 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $24 |
| Neuros Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Owens & Minor | 1 | $21 |
| Cagent Vascular Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$293 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 516 surgery providers in Tennessee.
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 Nashville
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- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
- Joseph BroucekNashville$262K
- Ashok BabuNashville$126K
- Meredith DukeNashville$77K
- Zachary CallahanNashville$65K
- Joseph DelozierNashville$44K
- Laura LawsonNashville$36K
- Richard PierceNashville$23K
- David DyerNashville$23K
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.