Fangyi Zhang, MD
Neurological Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1619062254
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $127,539 of the $191,995 with a category attached, or 66.4%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 52.0% of the total. Among neurological surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 110 payments — averaging $1745.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$100K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$87K
- Medtronic$3K
- Synthes GmbH$2K
- Carlsmed, Inc.$720
- Johnson & Johnson$324
- plus $169 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$127,53966%
- Speaking & faculty fees$41,75622%
- Travel & lodging$20,38211%
- Food & beverage$2,3191%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 68 | $99,766 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 16 | $86,503 |
| Medtronic | 17 | $2,825 |
| Synthes GmbH | 2 | $1,687 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 2 | $720 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $324 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 1 | $140 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
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.
- EXPEDIUM$46,446
- SKYLINE$33,765
- Quartex$22,499
- CREO$20,693
- RISE$14,101
- Excelsius - GPS$12,699
- ELSA, ELSA AL/ATP$10,956
- ELSA$9,810
- VIPER$5,400
- CONCORDE$5,400
- CONFIDENCE SPINAL CEMENT SYSTEM$5,400
- CREO MIS Stabilization System$5,106
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$2,396
- Teligen$1,915
- aprevo$702
- XLIF$509
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$392
- Excelsius Robotics System$243
- CALIBER-L$197
- SYMPHONY$173
How this compares
$191,995 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 582 neurological 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 neurological surgery in Houston
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Paul HolmanHouston$516K
- Taylor GistHouston$447K
- Meng HuangHouston$324K
- Laurence RhinesHouston$322K
- Omar TanweerHouston$254K
- Jeremy WangHouston$231K
- Alexander RopperHouston$208K
- Ashwin ViswanathanHouston$185K
- Blake StaubHouston$171K
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.