Katherine Benedict
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1508352196
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 120 payments — averaging $100.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axogen$4K
- Kerecis Limited$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$910
- Stryker$724
- Sonex Health, Inc.$675
- Johnson & Johnson$672
- plus $4K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,21718%
- Food & beverage$9,49879%
- Education$3002%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axogen | 14 | $3,736 |
| Kerecis Limited | 7 | $1,413 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 12 | $910 |
| Stryker | 6 | $724 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 13 | $675 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 14 | $672 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $654 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 5 | $459 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 8 | $458 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 7 | $432 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 2 | $235 |
| Somavac Medical Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $234 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $168 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $163 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $150 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $139 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $128 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $118 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $71 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Amgen | 2 | $31 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $21 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $16 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$3,367
- AXOGUARD$2,839
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$2,020
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$1,891
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$1,891
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$1,648
- INTEGRA$1,564
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$1,419
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$1,419
- Kerecis SurgiClose$540
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$521
- PRIMATRIX$400
- Matriderm$333
- Sx-One Microknife$305
- UNIVERSAL MANDIBLE$300
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$293
- VSP SYSTEM, VSP CRANIAL$273
- NA$266
- ALLODERM$260
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$168
How this compares
$12,014 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 378 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Texas.
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- Michael KlebucHouston$204K
- Jeffrey FriedmanHouston$159K
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- Edward ChangHouston$111K
- Justin BroylesHouston$70K
- Christi BlakkolbHouston$69K
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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.