Ibrahim Elnihum, MD
Neurological Surgery · Temple, TXNPI 1770546921
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 45 payments — averaging $63.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$2K
- Medtronic$306
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$275
- Boston Scientific$216
- Genentech USA, Inc.$90
- Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.$72
- plus $337 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,46152%
- Food & beverage$1,37348%
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(2 entities) | 6 | $1,539 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $306 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 3 | $275 |
| Boston Scientific | 13 | $216 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $90 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $50 |
| Stryker | 1 | $43 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Abbott | 1 | $26 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $18 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- XLIF$1,444
- SYNCHROMEDII$181
How this compares
$2,835 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 31 | $271 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $72 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Temple
- Jason HuangTemple$222K
- John DormanOdessa$8.5M
- Daniel PetersonAustin$5.8M
- Daniel CurryHouston$3M
- Peter KanGalveston$1.8M
- Mirza BaigShenandoah$1.6M
- Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
- Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
- Douglas FoxAustin$948K
- Richard MeyratDallas$883K
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.