Rondel Albarado, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Houston, TXNPI 1811187057
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $155,690 of the $196,630 with a category attached, or 79.2%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC at 35.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $117,926 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $311 in 2024. Among surgical critical care clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 198 payments — averaging $993.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$71K
- AstraZeneca$62K
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$53K
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$11K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$79
- Stryker$61
- plus $79 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$155,69079%
- Travel & lodging$34,23817%
- Food & beverage$6,7023%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 55 | $70,579 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 60 | $61,733 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 68 | $52,947 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 7 | $11,153 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $79 |
| Stryker | 1 | $61 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $42 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $19 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 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.
How this compares
$196,630 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 104 surgical critical care 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.
Other surgical critical care in Houston
- Samir AwadHouston$1.6M
- Robert SouthardHouston$215K
- Daniel BonvilleHouston$28K
- Martin ZielinskiHouston$14K
- Subhasis ChatterjeeHouston$13K
- Melissa StewartHouston$12K
- Alexi BloomHouston$12K
- Celia LedetHouston$9K
- Todd HuzarHouston$9K
- Natasha BeckerHouston$8K
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.