Samer Elfallal, DO
Neurological Surgery · Spring, TXNPI 1700047412
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 131 payments — averaging $78.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Abbott$2K
- Globus Medical$524
- Nevro Corp.$447
- Spineology Inc.$356
- Microtransponder, Inc.$252
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$981%
- Travel & lodging$2,85728%
- Food & beverage$7,35371%
- Education$200%
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) | 67 | $5,023 |
| Abbott | 25 | $2,205 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 2 | $524 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $447 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $356 |
| Microtransponder, Inc. | 1 | $252 |
| Insightec,inc | 2 | $192 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $159 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Zynex Medical, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Avanos Medical | 3 | $129 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 1 | $123 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 2 | $98 |
| Axogen | 1 | $82 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $72 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $44 |
| Misonix Inc | 2 | $39 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $38 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $38 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $31 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Stryker | 1 | $20 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Amgen | 1 | $17 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $12 |
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.
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$1,936
- INFINITY$1,217
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$362
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$356
- Infinity DBS Pulse Generators$326
- MazorX - Renaissance$293
- STRATA$288
- REFLECT$265
- NVM5$259
- STEALTH AUTOGUIDE SYSTEM$175
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION SYSTEM$161
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$159
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$158
- ASCENDA$156
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$150
- INTELLIS$148
- Exablate$148
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$145
- Firebird Deformity Correction System$144
- Firebird NXG Spinal Fixation System$144
How this compares
$10,328 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 582 neurological 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.
Other neurological surgery in Spring
- John DormanOdessa$8.5M
- Daniel PetersonAustin$5.8M
- Daniel CurryHouston$3M
- Peter KanGalveston$1.8M
- Mirza BaigShenandoah$1.6M
- Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
- Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
- Douglas FoxAustin$948K
- Richard MeyratDallas$883K
- Adam LewisCorpus Christi$851K
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.