David Kim, MD
Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1316172356
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,984 of the $2,708 with a category attached, or 73.3%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 80.0% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,230 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $16 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $2,700.
Across 22 payments — averaging $123.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$308
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$132
- Johnson & Johnson$27
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$21
- Baxter Healthcare$21
- plus $32 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,98473%
- Food & beverage$69726%
- Education$271%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $2,165 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 9 | $308 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $27 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
| TELA Bio, 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
$2,708 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,830 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 surgery in Houston
- James SuliburkHouston$161K
- Funda MericHouston$141K
- Jonathan StahlHouston$105K
- Richard KnightHouston$103K
- Tanyaradzwa KajeseHouston$92K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
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.