Sherman Yu, MD
Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1922032895
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 202 payments — averaging $183.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Bolder Surgical, LLC$8K
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$7K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$5K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Medtronic$548
- plus $3K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,55045%
- Travel & lodging$3,62610%
- Food & beverage$6,80118%
- Education$10,00027%
- Gifts$160%
- Entertainment$260%
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 | 25 | $12,218 |
| Bolder Surgical, LLC | 2 | $8,145 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 11 | $7,263 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 34 | $4,992 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 24 | $1,329 |
| Medtronic | 10 | $548 |
| Novo Nordisk | 34 | $540 |
| Covidien LP | 7 | $305 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 6 | $242 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 2 | $182 |
| Stryker | 2 | $161 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $133 |
| Vivus LLC | 6 | $116 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Cytyc Surgical Products, LLC | 3 | $83 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $68 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $52 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $52 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 1 | $36 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 2 | $35 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- CoolSeal Generator$14,674
- DAVINCI XI$10,000
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$3,850
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,687
- ACESSA PROVU SYSTEM$574
- Echelon Flex$299
- LINX Reflux Management System$225
- ECHELON FLEX CST System$224
- Signia$165
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$153
- Enseal X1$153
- MYOSURE TISSUE REMOVAL DEVICE$149
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$137
- Situate$124
- SEAMGUARD Staple Line Reinforcement$114
- VISTASEAL$109
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$103
How this compares
$37,019 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,830 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 44 | $45,188 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 13 | $12,048 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 13 | $107 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $14 | $45,18844 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $540 | $12,04813 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
Other surgery in Houston
- Funda MericHouston$20.6M
- Isidoro WienerHouston$850K
- Mark HobeikaHouston$462K
- Joseph CoselliHouston$382K
- James SuliburkHouston$161K
- Richard KnightHouston$147K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Lloyd StegemannCorpus Christi$1.9M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Erik WilsonBellaire$1.2M
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.