David Azouz
Plastic Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1528139110
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $7,300 of the $9,448 with a category attached, or 77.3%. Covidien LP accounts for 70.5% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $6,651 and has fallen 85.3% since, to $980 in 2025.
Across 47 payments — averaging $201.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Covidien LP$7K
- AbbVie$886
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$700
- Axogen$209
- Medtronic$200
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$141
- plus $649 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7758%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,30077%
- Food & beverage$1,37315%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Covidien LP | 6 | $6,663 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $886 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $700 |
| Axogen | 6 | $209 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $200 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $141 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $111 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $74 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $59 |
| Lifenet Health | 4 | $47 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $24 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Vertex | 1 | $23 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $15 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $13 |
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
$9,448 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 337 plastic surgery providers in Texas.
Other plastic surgery in Dallas
- Rodney RohrichDallas$388K
- John TebbettsDallas$92K
- James SmarttDallas$91K
- Sameer JejurikarDallas$41K
- James ThorntonDallas$30K
- Jessica BilligDallas$26K
- Frederick DuffyDallas$24K
- Kent HughesDallas$24K
- Douglas SammerDallas$21K
- Phillip DauweDallas$17K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.