Farbod Malek, MD
Surgical Oncology · San Antonio, TXNPI 1972787927
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 438 payments — averaging $35.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$5K
- Stryker$5K
- Medinc Of Texas$713
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$678
- Johnson & Johnson$482
- KCI USA, Inc.$400
- plus $3K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,40035%
- Travel & lodging$5443%
- Food & beverage$8,93857%
- Education$7285%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $5,100 |
| Stryker | 309 | $5,042 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 1 | $713 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 10 | $678 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 18 | $482 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $400 |
| Acumed LLC | 4 | $340 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $289 |
| Imbed Biosciences Inc. | 11 | $263 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $242 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $220 |
| Bioventus LLC | 7 | $148 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 7 | $124 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 2 | $124 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Mission Medical Distribution, LLC | 3 | $115 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 2 | $114 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 7 | $112 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 5 | $111 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 3 | $82 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $77 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $75 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 1 | $65 |
| Convatec Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $41 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Axogen | 1 | $27 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $24 |
| Vertex | 1 | $21 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $19 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $14 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $13 |
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
$15,610 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 191 surgical oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 54 | $731 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 40 | $557 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 87 | $469 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 26 | $313 |
| Celecoxib | 15 | $151 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 16 | $84 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $49 |
| Amoxicillin | 20 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical oncology in San Antonio
- Alfredo Santillan GomezSan Antonio$125K
- Mio KitanoSan Antonio$32K
- Maryam ElmiSan Antonio$12K
- Allan WhiteSan Antonio$5K
- Alexander ParikhSan Antonio$5K
- Jennifer WargoHouston$6M
- Ernest CampHouston$3.6M
- Hop Tran CaoHouston$928K
- Elizabeth GrubbsHouston$750K
- Alastair ThompsonHouston$568K
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.