Samer Mattar
Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1861466708
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (38.6%), consulting fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 34.2% of the total. Among surgery 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 115 payments — averaging $499.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$20K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$18K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$12K
- Novo Nordisk$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Covidien LP$746
- plus $2K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,89022%
- Speaking & faculty fees$22,16039%
- Travel & lodging$4,8168%
- Food & beverage$5,93110%
- Education$11,63320%
- Gifts$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 23 | $19,631 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 22 | $18,281 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 11 | $12,133 |
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $2,782 |
| Medtronic | 25 | $2,244 |
| Covidien LP | 7 | $746 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $444 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $315 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $302 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $98 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $52 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $52 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $15 |
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
$57,438 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron Hcl | 14 | $74 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Houston
- James SuliburkHouston$161K
- Funda MericHouston$141K
- Jonathan StahlHouston$105K
- Richard KnightHouston$103K
- Tanyaradzwa KajeseHouston$92K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.