Has Robert Cloud, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $671 in general payments to Robert Cloud, MD across 35 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Robert Cloud, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Robert Cloud, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Robert Cloud, MD

Colon & Rectal Surgery · Heath, TXNPI 1467440073

Payments from drug & device makers

$671in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $19.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$168
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$116
THD America, Inc.$107
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$92
Axonics, Inc.$43
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$35
plus $111 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$60390%
Education$6810%

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
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.	13	$168
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	6	$116
THD America, Inc.	1	$107
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	4	$92
Axonics, Inc.	3	$43
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$35
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$24
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$22
Caris MPI, Inc.	1	$20
Novartis	1	$18
Johnson & Johnson	1	$14
Medtronic	1	$13

How this compares

$671 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 200 colon & rectal surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$85,116

Medicare patients

352

Services billed

586

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
LinzessLinaclotide	21	$12,650
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate	18	$9,031
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates	83	$5,311
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)	74	$5,273
Dicyclomine Hcl	142	$2,851
Colesevelam Hcl	16	$1,722
Esomeprazole Magnesium	15	$724
Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip	22	$585
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	12	$253
Metoclopramide Hcl	52	$237
Omeprazole	12	$226
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	11	$101
Metronidazole	11	$63
Finasteride	11	$43
Tramadol Hcl	11	$31

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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