Govardhana Yannam, MD
Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1023208949
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Integra Lifesciences Corporation at 59.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,498, 3.1 times the $484 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $2,700.
Across 25 payments — averaging $96.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$1K
- AbbVie$391
- Davol Inc.$150
- Stryker$150
- Innovation Technologies Inc$107
- Johnson & Johnson$74
- plus $112 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,14447%
- Other$1,28053%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $1,440 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $391 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Stryker | 1 | $150 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $107 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $74 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- CYTAL$789
- MICROMATRIX$491
- INTEGRA$441
- STRATTICE$260
- Phasix Mesh$150
- 1688 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$150
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$147
- PRIMATRIX$147
- Irrisept$107
How this compares
$2,424 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,830 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 surgery in Houston
- James SuliburkHouston$161K
- Funda MericHouston$141K
- Jonathan StahlHouston$105K
- Richard KnightHouston$103K
- Tanyaradzwa KajeseHouston$92K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
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.