Kofi Quaye, MD
Vascular Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1528416443
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 124 payments — averaging $106.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$1K
- Penumbra, Inc.$946
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$899
- Cook Medical LLC$612
- plus $3K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6105%
- Grants$1,0578%
- Travel & lodging$2,68420%
- Food & beverage$8,80466%
- Education$1121%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 40 | $5,245 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 12 | $1,262 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 7 | $1,049 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 7 | $946 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 10 | $899 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 10 | $612 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $460 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $375 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $375 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 3 | $358 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 5 | $265 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $258 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 5 | $240 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $213 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $195 |
| Flowphysix Inc | 2 | $128 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $107 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $107 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Abbott | 1 | $39 |
| Inspiremd Ltd | 1 | $24 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $20 |
| BD | 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.
- ENDURANT IIS$2,353
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,258
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$817
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$744
- NA$724
- Indigo System$699
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$600
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$515
- RotarexS 6 F x 135 cm$460
- HemoBlast Bellows$425
- Heli-FX EndoAnchor System$344
- Zenith Spiral-Z$342
- PACIFIC XTREME$330
- ClosureRFS$280
- Azur CX Detachable$263
- Barostim Neo System$213
- Shockwave Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) System with the Shockwave E8 Peripher$192
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$177
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$177
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$144
How this compares
$13,267 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 347 vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 18 | $162 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 12 | $94 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $94 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Houston
- Alan LumsdenHouston$2.4M
- 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
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.