Elias Chamely
Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1033641139
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 45 payments — averaging $110.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Davol Inc.$535
- Baxter Healthcare$505
- Medtronic$307
- Boston Scientific$258
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$235
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,81977%
- Education$1,16923%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $1,250 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $535 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $505 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $307 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $258 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $235 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $227 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $224 |
| BD | 1 | $202 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $199 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $178 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $154 |
| Mesh Suture Inc | 1 | $129 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $124 |
| Stryker | 1 | $118 |
| Vertex | 1 | $110 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Ormco Corporation | 1 | $50 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $45 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 1 | $36 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$615
- PerClot$394
- Phasix Mesh$277
- INTEGRA$254
- HemoSphere$202
- ENDO GIA ULTRA$175
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$169
- SpyGlass Discover$157
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$154
- GRAFIX PL$150
- Stravix$150
- Oasis$150
- Echelon Flex$138
- SmartAblateTM System RF Generator$138
- Signia$132
- Duramesh$129
- OMNIGRAFT$127
- SURGIMEND$127
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$127
How this compares
$4,988 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
Other surgery in Houston
- Funda MericHouston$20.6M
- Isidoro WienerHouston$850K
- Mark HobeikaHouston$462K
- Joseph CoselliHouston$382K
- James SuliburkHouston$161K
- Richard KnightHouston$147K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Lloyd StegemannCorpus Christi$1.9M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Erik WilsonBellaire$1.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.