Channa Blakely
Vascular Surgery · Galveston, TXNPI 1275190084
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 145 payments — averaging $79.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$3K
- Cook Medical LLC$1K
- Endologix LLC$582
- Surmodics, Inc.$577
- Medtronic$500
- plus $3K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,0369%
- Food & beverage$9,41682%
- Education$1,0299%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 36 | $3,028 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 16 | $2,591 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 19 | $1,283 |
| Endologix LLC | 11 | $582 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 11 | $577 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $500 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 4 | $478 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 8 | $393 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 4 | $377 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $281 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $278 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 3 | $253 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 2 | $195 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $156 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $55 |
| Abbott | 2 | $50 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 3 | $49 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $38 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $26 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $20 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
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.
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$2,418
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$2,418
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis$688
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$605
- Zilver PTX$523
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$306
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$280
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$271
- Indigo System$265
- Sublime 014 Rx PTA Balloon Dilatation Catheter$235
- Sublime Microcatheter, 018, 200cm, Straight$235
- Pounce Thrombectomy System$235
- Pounce Thrombectomy$235
- Pounce Venous Thrombectomy System$235
- Diamondback Peripheral$224
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$221
- GORE PROPATEN Vascular Graft$164
- PRODIGY CATHETER$161
- Restrata Wound Matrix$156
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$149
How this compares
$11,481 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 347 vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 14 | $8,432 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 67 | $535 |
| Gabapentin | 19 | $132 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 18 | $80 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Galveston
- Charlie ChengGalveston$194K
- Mazin FotehAustin$2.5M
- Alan LumsdenHouston$2.4M
- Gregory PearlDallas$2.3M
- Gustavo OderichHouston$999K
- Michael SiahDallas$838K
- Stephen HohmannDallas$587K
- Dennis GableDallas$547K
- Carlos TimaranDallas$527K
- Samuel LeonardHouston$431K
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.