Has Eric Peden, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $465,232 in general payments to Eric Peden, MD across 377 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Eric Peden, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Eric Peden, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Eric Peden, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Houston, TXNPI 1356421770

Payments from drug & device makers

$465,232in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 377 payments — averaging $1234.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Laminate Medical Technologies Inc.$190K
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$164K
Merit Medical Systems Inc$61K
Zimmer Biomet$16K
Merck$7K
BD$6K
plus $22K from 51 others

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
Laminate Medical Technologies Inc.	24	$189,914
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	50	$164,187
Merit Medical Systems Inc	16	$60,517
Zimmer Biomet	6	$16,313
Merck	8	$6,791
BD	3	$5,800
Medtronic(2 entities)	19	$5,010
Artegraft Inc.	3	$3,000
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	53	$2,689
Inari Medical, Inc.	25	$2,434
Boston Scientific	25	$1,379
Bolton Medical Inc	20	$1,016
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	8	$878
Baxter Healthcare	12	$686
Cook Medical LLC	12	$377
Angiodynamics, Inc.	6	$321
Penumbra, Inc.	4	$309
Medinc Of Texas	2	$256
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	6	$248
Kerecis Limited	3	$238
Terumo Medical Corporation	2	$231
Endologix LLC	3	$230
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	10	$224
Abbott	3	$206
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	4	$187
Surmodics, Inc.	5	$183
Smith+Nephew	3	$165
Organogenesis Inc.	2	$133
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$130
Argon Medical Devices, Inc.	3	$122
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$119
Corcym Inc	1	$92
Teleflex LLC	2	$91
Lifenet Health	2	$91
Pfizer	4	$59
Philips North America LLC	2	$58
Contego Medical, Inc	1	$48
Medistim USA, Inc.	1	$47
Shape Memory Medical Inc.	2	$46
Sanara Medtech Inc.	3	$45
Elutia, Inc.	1	$45
Imperative Care, Inc	1	$44
Heartflow, Inc.	1	$35
Davol Inc.	1	$28
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$25
Artivion, Inc.	1	$24
Convatec Inc.	1	$21
Biom'up SA	1	$20
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	1	$19
Baylis Medical Technologies Inc.	1	$18
Acell, Inc.	1	$15
Wound Management Technologies, Inc	1	$15
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	1	$14
Amgen	1	$14
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$13
Inceptus Medical, LLC	1	$9
Alafair Biosciences, Inc.	1	$5

How this compares

$465,232 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$298,120

Medicare patients

708

Services billed

1,671

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.

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Igor GregoricHouston$359K
Thomas MacgillivrayHouston$330K
Min KimHouston$326K
Randall WolfHouston$283K

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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.

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