David Hall, MD
Transplant Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1508020074
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $34,000 of the $43,180 with a category attached, or 78.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 90.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $14,263 and has fallen 75.0% since, to $3,572 in 2025. Among transplant surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 60 payments — averaging $719.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$39K
- Histosonics, Inc.$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$119
- Davol Inc.$110
- Intera Oncology, Inc$103
- Sanofi$101
- plus $189 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,0405%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,0002%
- Travel & lodging$3,5738%
- Food & beverage$2,5676%
- Education$34,00079%
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 | 44 | $39,056 |
| Histosonics, Inc. | 2 | $3,501 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Intera Oncology, Inc | 1 | $103 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $101 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $72 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $40 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$34,485
- DAVINCI XI$3,000
- DA VINCI SP$1,000
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$119
- PHASIX$110
- INTERA$103
- THYMOGLOBULIN$101
How this compares
$43,180 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 70 transplant 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.
Other transplant surgery in Houston
- Rafik GhobrialHouston$144K
- Constance MobleyHouston$56K
- Ahmed GaberHouston$35K
- Nhu Thao GalvanHouston$22K
- Abbas RanaHouston$11K
- Chun-Sing HuangHouston$10K
- Charles VanburenHouston$9K
- John GossHouston$3K
- John BynonHouston$1K
- Rupak KulkarniHouston$253
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.