Has Salah Aoun, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $78,133 in general payments to Salah Aoun, MD across 41 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 Salah Aoun, 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 Salah Aoun, 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.

Salah Aoun, MD

Neurological Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1467796623

Payments from drug & device makers

$78,133in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $1905.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$69K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$7K
VB Spine LLC$2K
Stryker$66
Boston Scientific$35
Aesculap, Inc.$29

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,15641%
Food & beverage$1,69759%

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(2 entities)	17	$68,711
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$7,218
VB Spine LLC	18	$2,075
Stryker	2	$66
Boston Scientific	1	$35
Aesculap, Inc.	1	$29

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

$78,133 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$380,805

Medicare patients

325

Services billed

1,100

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
Methocarbamol	297	$5,370
Gabapentin	85	$1,887
Pregabalin	82	$1,136
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	116	$1,092
Oxycodone Hcl	176	$931
Dexamethasone	30	$214
Tramadol Hcl	37	$164
Methylprednisolone	14	$122
Hydrocortisone	12	$99
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	11	$90
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	12	$54

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Dallas

Richard MeyratDallas$883K
Anthony MaiorielloDallas$328K
Babu WelchDallas$268K
Bartley MitchellDallas$255K
Jeremy DenningDallas$204K
John DormanOdessa$8.5M
Daniel PetersonAustin$5.8M
Daniel CurryHouston$3M
Peter KanGalveston$1.8M
Mirza BaigShenandoah$1.6M

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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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