Mitchell George, MD
Trauma Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1487071387
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.5% of the total across 195 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 25 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 195 payments — averaging $63.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$1K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$1K
- Penumbra, Inc.$986
- plus $4K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$671%
- Food & beverage$12,33799%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 15 | $1,790 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 12 | $1,656 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 22 | $1,311 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 49 | $1,164 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 14 | $1,067 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 7 | $986 |
| Boston Scientific | 17 | $659 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 16 | $638 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 7 | $613 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $383 |
| Neuros Medical, Inc. | 4 | $355 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $273 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $259 |
| Abbott | 4 | $257 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 3 | $194 |
| Stryker | 7 | $169 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $152 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 2 | $120 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $111 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,718
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$1,533
- ENDURANT IIS$1,388
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$837
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$837
- Indigo System$742
- Altius$327
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$305
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$305
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$296
- Zilver PTX$279
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$273
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$267
- Cook$257
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$256
- ELUVIA$240
- GORE EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis$198
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$185
- RUBY Coil$148
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$141
How this compares
$12,404 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 108 trauma 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 19 | $14,269 |
| Cilostazol | 23 | $554 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 54 | $493 |
| Gabapentin | 19 | $270 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 36 | $105 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $87 |
| Diazepam | 13 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other trauma surgery in Houston
- Jennifer MoffettHouston$68K
- Michael WandlingHouston$25K
- Thomas ClementsHouston$6K
- Luis FernandezTyler$493K
- Billy MorganWaco$122K
- Sudeep BurmanAustin$72K
- Michael EricksonGalveston$18K
- Ryan KennedyDallas$18K
- Thomas GoaleyMansfield$17K
- Tessa WoodsFort Worth$17K
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.