Marcus Wong
Neurological Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1245723311
Payments from drug & device makers
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 60th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.
Other neurological surgery in Houston
- Daniel CurryHouston$3M
- Homero AnchondoHouston$799K
- Claudio TatsuiHouston$777K
- Arthur DayHouston$746K
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Peng ChenHouston$550K
- Daniel YoshorHouston$519K
- Paul HolmanHouston$516K
- Nitin TandonHouston$510K
- Nelson MossHouston$501K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.