Gerardo Catalasan, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Midland, TXNPI 1760501720
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (50.6%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 59.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,441 and has fallen 56.1% since, to $2,829 in 2025. Among critical care medicine 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 72 payments — averaging $193.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$2K
- Abiomed$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$375
- AstraZeneca$349
- plus $615 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,05151%
- Food & beverage$2,87121%
- Education$4,01329%
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 | 24 | $8,269 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 14 | $1,707 |
| Abiomed | 14 | $1,606 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $1,014 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 5 | $375 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $349 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $218 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $148 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $121 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $93 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $23 |
| Merck | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$7,815
- SINGLE USE SUCTION VALVE (Sterile)$1,386
- Impella$1,177
- NA$1,014
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$182
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$182
- TYVASO$148
- SYMBICORT$132
- GIAPREZA$121
- XARELTO$109
- Monarch Platform$109
How this compares
$13,935 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 507 critical care medicine 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 critical care medicine in Midland
- Steven DavidoffPlano$364K
- William BartekAustin$284K
- Edwin ParsleyHouston$283K
- Hector PayanEl Paso$245K
- Bindu AkkantiHouston$185K
- Faisal MasudHouston$155K
- Sergio Trevino CastilloHouston$133K
- Akinyinka AjelabiKingwood$109K
- Anthony OrtegonDallas$106K
- Gary WeinsteinDallas$103K
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.