Melissa Kirkwood, MD
Vascular Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1043444565
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $7,695 of the $11,763 with a category attached, or 65.4%. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. accounts for 87.1% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,283 and has fallen 92.0% since, to $343 in 2025.
Across 44 payments — averaging $267.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$10K
- Medtronic$755
- Boston Scientific$286
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$208
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$120
- Surmodics, Inc.$88
- plus $56 from 2 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $5636.17 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$34K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,69565%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3003%
- Grants$4003%
- Travel & lodging$590%
- Food & beverage$3,30928%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 31 | $10,250 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $755 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $286 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $208 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 3 | $88 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $11 |
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.
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$6,141
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$1,995
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$682
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$288
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$208
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$170
- GORE PROPATEN Vascular Graft$149
- EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis$144
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$138
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$132
- ELUVIA$124
- ARTEGRAFT VASCULAR GRAFT$120
- VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis$109
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$103
How this compares
$11,763 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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 | 40 | $315 |
| Prednisone | 14 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Dallas
- Gregory PearlDallas$2.3M
- Stephen HohmannDallas$499K
- Michael SiahDallas$392K
- Carlos TimaranDallas$231K
- Dennis GableDallas$211K
- Alton BurnsDallas$98K
- John EidtDallas$88K
- Babafemi PrattDallas$87K
- Marc SalhanickDallas$84K
- Bradley GrimsleyDallas$78K
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.