Kurt Yaeger, MD
Neurological Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1841684818
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (40.0%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 46.9% of the total.
Across 226 payments — averaging $126.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$13K
- Imperative Care, Inc$5K
- Stryker$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Kaneka Medical America LLC$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- plus $2K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,52323%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,2004%
- Travel & lodging$11,44240%
- Food & beverage$8,93831%
- Entertainment$4892%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 25 | $13,406 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 75 | $4,879 |
| Stryker | 32 | $4,470 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 61 | $1,465 |
| Kaneka Medical America LLC | 3 | $1,089 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $1,051 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $873 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 6 | $569 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 2 | $202 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $147 |
| Qapel Medical Inc | 1 | $143 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Route 92 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $33 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 2 | $21 |
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.
- EMBOGUARD$10,478
- ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$2,633
- SPOTLIGHT$675
- STRATA$621
- AXS CATALYST 7$610
- Artemis$600
- ZOOM RDL RADIAL ACCESS SYSTEM, 103CM$442
- TREVO$430
- TARGET$311
- SURPASS EVOLVE$278
- Penumbra System$273
- ZOOM REPERFUSION CATHETER$273
- NEUROFORM ATLAS$254
- Carrier Delivery Catheter$218
- Raptor Aspiration Catheter$218
- ERIC RETRIEVAL DEVICE$202
- ASPIRATION TUBING SET$154
- Excelsius - GPS$147
- BROADWAY 8$146
- Optima Coil System$144
How this compares
$28,591 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 23 | $10,114 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 17 | $119 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Houston
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Paul HolmanHouston$516K
- Taylor GistHouston$447K
- Meng HuangHouston$324K
- Laurence RhinesHouston$322K
- Omar TanweerHouston$254K
- Jeremy WangHouston$231K
- Alexander RopperHouston$208K
- Fangyi ZhangHouston$192K
- Ashwin ViswanathanHouston$185K
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.