Bobby Palmos
Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1891315669
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 108 payments — averaging $46.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- AbbVie$410
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$305
- Johnson & Johnson$249
- KCI USA, Inc.$226
- Urgo Medical North America, LLC$205
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,67454%
- Education$2,30546%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $2,000 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 14 | $410 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $305 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 10 | $249 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 13 | $226 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 7 | $205 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $202 |
| Stryker | 7 | $180 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $163 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 5 | $123 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $122 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $117 |
| Solventum Corporation | 5 | $104 |
| CSL Behring | 5 | $82 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $71 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $50 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $48 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $42 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $21 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $18 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $17 |
| Axogen | 1 | $16 |
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
$4,979 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
Other surgery in Dallas
- Sachin KukrejaDallas$645K
- Malcolm MacconmaraDallas$635K
- Walton TaylorDallas$369K
- Steven LeedsDallas$217K
- Aaron HoffmanDallas$210K
- Lam leDallas$180K
- Benjamin LeviDallas$145K
- Funda MericHouston$20.6M
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Lloyd StegemannCorpus Christi$1.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.