Ejodamen Shobowale, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1083029060
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.1%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 30 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 45.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,715 and has fallen 79.6% since, to $554 in 2025.
Across 180 payments — averaging $61.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5K
- Kerecis Limited$2K
- Arthrosurface Incorporated$892
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$527
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$408
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$365
- plus $2K from 24 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $2890.52 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$26K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,74243%
- Food & beverage$6,34557%
- Education$150%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 71 | $5,060 |
| Kerecis Limited | 5 | $2,149 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 5 | $892 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $527 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 5 | $408 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 25 | $365 |
| Smith+Nephew | 17 | $305 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $216 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $181 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 3 | $97 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $88 |
| Amgen | 2 | $77 |
| Abbott | 3 | $75 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $72 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $64 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Wound Management Technologies, Inc | 1 | $39 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $34 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Imbed Biosciences Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Misonix 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.
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$4,603
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$2,554
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$1,789
- INTEGRA$1,263
- PRIME SERIES$849
- PROstep$700
- HemiCAP MTP Resurfacing$656
- SALVATION$538
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$440
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$421
- PRIMATRIX$421
- FIXOS$331
- CellerateRx$258
- Kerecis Omega3 Wound$216
- STAR$170
- ANCHORAGE$165
- PROPHECY$148
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$144
- HOFFMANN$130
- EASYFUSE$130
How this compares
$11,102 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 684 foot & ankle 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 91 | $2,425 |
| Ketoconazole | 92 | $1,677 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 58 | $378 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 23 | $248 |
| Cephalexin | 34 | $127 |
| Methylprednisolone | 20 | $108 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 12 | $74 |
| Ibuprofen | 23 | $73 |
| Mupirocin | 17 | $66 |
| Gabapentin | 16 | $28 |
| Meloxicam | 16 | $18 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Houston
- Kevin VarnerHouston$1.1M
- Sherman NaglerHouston$602K
- Abdul NurudeenHouston$404K
- Orlando RiveraHouston$384K
- Brian LepowHouston$309K
- Yueh LeeHouston$95K
- William GranberryHouston$84K
- Nathaniel AlabiHouston$71K
- Jorge MatukHouston$45K
- William McGarveyKaty$3.5M
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.