Natasha Furchtgott, DDS
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery · El Paso, TXNPI 1669613485
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 88 payments — averaging $76.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Dentsply IH Inc.$2K
- Straumann USA LLC$2K
- Nobel Biocare USA$1K
- Kls-martin L.p.$432
- Johnson & Johnson$221
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$192
- plus $463 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$661%
- Travel & lodging$1,08716%
- Food & beverage$4,67070%
- Education$2504%
- Gifts$2213%
- Entertainment$4016%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dentsply IH Inc. | 7 | $2,435 |
| Straumann USA LLC | 45 | $1,881 |
| Nobel Biocare USA | 20 | $1,073 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 5 | $432 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $221 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $192 |
| Stryker | 3 | $153 |
| Patterson Companies, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $89 |
| Abbott | 1 | $70 |
| Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
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
$6,696 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 591 oral and maxillofacial 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tranexamic Acid | 14 | $443 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 109 | $407 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 15 | $316 |
| Methocarbamol | 11 | $292 |
| Ibuprofen | 66 | $225 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 21 | $174 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 34 | $172 |
| Amoxicillin | 56 | $100 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 21 | $89 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 22 | $71 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other oral and maxillofacial surgery in El Paso
- Arshad KaleemEl Paso$42K
- Vernon BurkeEl Paso$19K
- Nguyen LamEl Paso$8K
- David YatesEl Paso$8K
- James MelvilleHouston$242K
- Arthur FieldsPlano$237K
- Donald GardnerHouston$234K
- Pedro FrancoIrving$91K
- Fayette WilliamsFort Worth$74K
- Craig BuchmannKeller$69K
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.