Marcus Wong
Neurological Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1245723311
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,042 of the $9,254 with a category attached, or 65.3%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 28.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,804, 3.7 times the $1,303 reported in 2019.
Across 96 payments — averaging $96.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Balt USA, LLC$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$936
- Microvention, Inc.$637
- Baxter Healthcare$479
- Medtronic$446
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,21335%
- Food & beverage$6,04265%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 17 | $2,648 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 22 | $1,982 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $936 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 3 | $637 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $479 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $446 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $378 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 8 | $375 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $321 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $188 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $127 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $125 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $100 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 2 | $63 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Optima Coil System$1,586
- Carrier Delivery Catheter$1,215
- SURPASS EVOLVE$979
- Raptor Aspiration Catheter$746
- TARGET$672
- Prestige Coil System$628
- BOBBY$576
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$576
- ERIC RETRIEVAL DEVICE$576
- STENT$576
- ANDEXXA$395
- FLOSEAL$384
- Walter$326
- TRITANIUM$285
- 1.5mm Neuro$262
- RAVINE LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$173
- NONE$145
- CODMAN CERTAS$143
- CUSA CLARITY$143
- CODMAN HAKIM$143
How this compares
$9,254 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.
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).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.