Lerone Simpson, MD
Surgical Critical Care · McAllen, TXNPI 1386828697
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,436 of the $2,278 with a category attached, or 63.0%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 67.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,644 and has fallen 92.1% since, to $130 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgical critical care clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $1,833.
Across 14 payments — averaging $162.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$148
- Atricure, Inc.$141
- Medtronic$108
- Zimmer Biomet$99
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$98
- plus $148 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,43663%
- Food & beverage$84337%
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. | 6 | $1,536 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $148 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $141 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $108 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $99 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $64 |
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.
How this compares
$2,278 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 104 surgical critical care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 11 | $61 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical critical care in McAllen
- Jeffrey SkubicMcAllen$11K
- Roy EdwardsMcAllen$3K
- Samir AwadHouston$1.6M
- Sharmilla DissanaikeLubbock$844K
- Robert SouthardHouston$215K
- Rondel AlbaradoHouston$197K
- Anthony CahillWaco$43K
- Michael CorneilleSan Antonio$35K
- Christopher CouchTyler$30K
- Ryan KostkaFort Worth$30K
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.