Has David Dawson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,421 in general payments to David Dawson, MD across 153 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean David Dawson, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about David Dawson, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

David Dawson, MD

Vascular Surgery · Temple, TXNPI 1104802503

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.9%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 31.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,276 and has fallen 50.4% since, to $2,123 in 2025.

$17,421in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 153 payments — averaging $113.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$5K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$5K
Boston Scientific$3K
Terumo Medical Corporation$1K
Silk Road Medical, Inc.$943
Cook Medical LLC$710
plus $1K from 13 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,89017%
Travel & lodging$3,71521%
Food & beverage$9,39554%
Education$1,4208%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	54	$5,491
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	37	$4,653
Boston Scientific	9	$3,086
Terumo Medical Corporation	10	$1,138
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	9	$943
Cook Medical LLC	10	$710
Bolton Medical Inc	4	$401
Shockwave Medical, Inc	2	$198
Endologix LLC	3	$173
Shape Memory Medical Inc.	1	$150
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$150
Philips North America LLC	4	$102
Abbott	1	$55
Neuros Medical, Inc.	2	$51
Solventum Corporation	1	$28
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	2	$26
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	1	$26
Mindray DS USA, Inc.	1	$25
Inari Medical, Inc.	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

$17,421 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 347 vascular surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$40,573

Medicare patients

Services billed

226

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.

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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.

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