Caroline Fife
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine · The Woodlands, TXNPI 1669490215
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (34.6%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. at 42.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,133 and has fallen 59.6% since, to $1,265 in 2025.
Across 54 payments — averaging $176.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$4K
- Convatec Inc.$3K
- Kerecis Limited$652
- Cashflow Solutions, LLC$500
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$272
- Medline Industries LP$182
- plus $919 from 12 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $63,406 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- KCI USA, Inc.$507K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,50026%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,00021%
- Travel & lodging$1,72318%
- Food & beverage$3,29035%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $4,000 |
| Convatec Inc. | 22 | $2,989 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $652 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 1 | $500 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $272 |
| Medline Industries LP | 4 | $182 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $160 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $125 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $116 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $85 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $56 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $23 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| 3M Company | 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
$9,512 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 59 undersea and hyperbaric medicine providers in Texas.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.