Has Joseph Besho, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $34,736 in general payments to Joseph Besho, MD across 342 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Joseph Besho, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Joseph Besho, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Joseph Besho, MD

Vascular Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1780039925

Payments from drug & device makers

$34,736in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 342 payments — averaging $101.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$12K
Inari Medical, Inc.$7K
Silk Road Medical, Inc.$5K
Abbott$4K
Terumo Medical Corporation$1K
Smith+Nephew$1K
plus $5K from 44 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$6,10018%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,0003%
Travel & lodging$15,44644%
Food & beverage$12,19135%

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
Medtronic	58	$11,898
Inari Medical, Inc.	35	$7,394
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	17	$4,790
Abbott	22	$3,748
Terumo Medical Corporation	10	$1,163
Smith+Nephew	63	$1,051
Surmodics, Inc.	17	$552
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	17	$498
Bolton Medical Inc	7	$390
Boston Scientific	15	$325
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	11	$230
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	4	$226
Baxter Healthcare	5	$193
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	4	$177
Endologix LLC	2	$174
Atricure, Inc.	4	$172
Bone Support Inc.	1	$153
Angiodynamics, Inc.	3	$139
Edwards Lifesciences	2	$130
Medinc Of Texas	1	$119
Philips North America LLC	1	$112
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	1	$73
Imperative Care, Inc	1	$67
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$63
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	3	$60
Heartflow, Inc.	1	$59
Merck	3	$58
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	3	$58
Stryker	1	$54
Cvrx, Inc.	3	$54
BD	1	$49
Amgen	3	$44
Davol Inc.	1	$43
Tactile Systems Technology Inc	2	$40
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$37
Novo Nordisk	2	$35
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$34
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	1	$30
Elutia, Inc.	1	$29
LSI Solutions Inc	1	$29
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	1	$26
Solventum Corporation	1	$25
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	1	$21
Polynovo North America LLC	1	$19
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$18
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$17
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	1	$16
Irhythm Technologies, Inc.	1	$16
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	1	$15
Boehringer Ingelheim	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.

CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$10,002
IN.PACT Admiral$9,662
ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$8,469
ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$4,525
ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$3,944
SUPERA$3,145
FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$3,084
Abre$933
Azur CX Detachable$890
VenaSeal$445
ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$304
ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$304
CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$153
CERAMENT G$153
Grafts$148
VISTASEAL$129
SURGICEL NU-KNIT$129
SURGIFLO Hemostatic Matrix$129
Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$119
(5027) Intact Vascular Und$112

How this compares

$34,736 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 347 vascular surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$304,094

Medicare patients

440

Services billed

1,478

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
EliquisApixaban	30	$23,217
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	178	$1,533
Cilostazol	11	$206
Gabapentin	14	$146
Atorvastatin Calcium	24	$132
Mupirocin	11	$59
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	13	$50
Tramadol Hcl	14	$43

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Gustavo OderichHouston$999K
Samuel LeonardHouston$431K
Ali AzizzadehHouston$387K
Jean BismuthHouston$382K
Kristofer Charlton-OuwHouston$240K
Maham RahimiHouston$221K
Jayer ChungHouston$179K
Steven MaximusHouston$140K
Charudatta BavareHouston$130K

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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.

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