Has Sara Mahmood received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $110,953 in general payments to Sara Mahmood across 247 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 Sara Mahmood 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 Sara Mahmood 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.

Sara Mahmood

General Practice · Hurst, TXNPI 1972984623

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $74,334 of the $110,953 with a category attached, or 67.0%. Dentsply Sirona Inc accounts for 80.1% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among general practice 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.

$110,953in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 247 payments — averaging $449.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Dentsply Sirona Inc$89K
Dentsply Sirona Orthodontics Inc$20K
Align Technology, Inc.$404
Implant Direct Sybron International LLC$385
Henry Schein, Inc.$362
Zimvie Inc.$355
plus $90 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$6,7506%
Speaking & faculty fees$74,33467%
Travel & lodging$19,76518%
Food & beverage$6,0655%
Education$3,0423%
Gifts$680%
Entertainment$7501%
Charitable contribution$1800%

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
Dentsply Sirona Inc	177	$88,886
Dentsply Sirona Orthodontics Inc	31	$20,472
Align Technology, Inc.	13	$404
Implant Direct Sybron International LLC	8	$385
Henry Schein, Inc.	2	$362
Zimvie Inc.	12	$355
Osteoready LLC	1	$50
Planmeca USA, Inc.	2	$29
GC America Inc.	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.

SureSmile$26,063
SureSmile Aligners$2,250
CEREC$2,123
DENTSPLY$1,145
Dental Equipment$603
LEGACY SYSTEM$277
Planmeca ProX Single Stud 75in Arm$272
Planmeca PlanScan Scanner Tip Portrait$272
Planmeca ProX X Ray Dual Stud$272
Planmeca ProX Xray W Dual St Plate$272
Planmeca Planmeca Emerald Standard Tip$272
Primescan Connect$244
Invisalign$180

How this compares

$110,953 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,074 general practice providers in Texas.

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Other general practice in Hurst

Marcus LastimadoFort Bliss$2.3M
Christina DeanFrisco$1.9M
Paul ShrodeMissouri City$1.2M
Alan DouglasSan Antonio$609K
C Mike MeekAustin$509K
Young KwonDallas$288K
Matthew HicksFriendswood$268K
Kathleen Szelei-StevensHouston$253K
Hoa TranPearland$156K
Mitchell KimRichardson$145K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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