John Hamati
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1124581020
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,887 of the $14,851 with a category attached, or 80.0%. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 151 payments — averaging $98.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$1K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$1K
- plus $3K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,96420%
- Food & beverage$11,88780%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 29 | $2,886 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 26 | $2,869 |
| Stryker | 11 | $1,751 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 12 | $1,414 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 14 | $1,305 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 19 | $1,192 |
| Axogen | 10 | $935 |
| Kerecis Limited | 5 | $439 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $297 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 3 | $290 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $178 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $144 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $142 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $122 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $118 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $109 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Vertex | 1 | $104 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 2 | $103 |
| Medline Industries LP | 2 | $75 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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.
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$1,333
- Restrata Wound Matrix$1,225
- 1788$1,223
- INTEGRA$884
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$776
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$597
- ALLODERM$558
- Kerecis SurgiClose$540
- PRIMATRIX$443
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$434
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$382
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$357
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$348
- OviTex 2S$297
- DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$282
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$214
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$214
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$214
- Checkpoint Stimulators$210
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$210
How this compares
$14,851 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 378 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Texas.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.