Edward Pina
Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1720257454
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,000 of the $10,535 with a category attached, or 66.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 71.3% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $7,745 and has fallen 89.6% since, to $806 in 2023.
Across 63 payments — averaging $167.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$717
- TELA Bio, Inc.$691
- Teleflex LLC$302
- Merz North America, Inc.$203
- Medtronic$195
- plus $912 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2673%
- Food & beverage$3,26831%
- Education$7,00066%
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 | 11 | $7,515 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $717 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 14 | $691 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $302 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 5 | $203 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $195 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $178 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $132 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Biogen | 1 | $96 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $49 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 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
$10,535 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
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).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.