Samir Awad
Surgical Critical Care · Houston, TXNPI 1922103290
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $1,123,893 of the $1,576,630 with a category attached, or 71.3%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by TELA Bio, Inc. at 54.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $420,429 and has fallen 59.5% since, to $170,441 in 2025. 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 742 payments — averaging $2124.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- TELA Bio, Inc.$856K
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$239K
- Triad Life Sciences Inc.$106K
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$99K
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$80K
- Convatec Inc.$58K
- plus $139K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,123,89371%
- Speaking & faculty fees$267,70317%
- Travel & lodging$89,5066%
- Food & beverage$18,4071%
- Education$1,5490%
- Other$75,5715%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 486 | $855,895 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 76 | $238,709 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 11 | $106,340 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 14 | $99,279 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 60 | $79,723 |
| Convatec Inc. | 23 | $58,148 |
| Wound Management Technologies, Inc | 13 | $49,204 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 24 | $37,170 |
| Next Science LLC | 4 | $20,250 |
| Biom'up SA | 7 | $15,673 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 8 | $13,381 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $1,455 |
| TAS Medical, Inc. | 2 | $437 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $325 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $325 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 3 | $58 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $38 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $34 |
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.
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$656,499
- CellerateRx$282,291
- Ovitex$110,222
- OviTex 2S$82,489
- InnovaMatrix AC$70,704
- GIAPREZA$49,359
- HemoBlast Bellows$37,120
- INNOVAMATRIX PD$31,322
- SurgX$20,250
- Zevtera$19,497
- HEMOBLAST$15,618
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$13,319
- FLOWABLE$13,319
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$13,319
- IDRT$13,319
- Xerava$10,138
- Xperience$5,750
- Biasurge$5,084
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,374
- PRIMATRIX$819
How this compares
$1,576,630 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 104 surgical critical care providers in Texas.
Other surgical critical care in Houston
- Robert SouthardHouston$215K
- Rondel AlbaradoHouston$197K
- 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).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.