Steven Feher, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (41.0%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 55.2% of the total. Among surgery clinicians in OK 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 330 payments — averaging $151.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$28K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$16K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- BD$1K
- Davol Inc.$807
- TAS Medical, Inc.$695
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,80010%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,9008%
- Travel & lodging$5,95612%
- Food & beverage$14,82930%
- Education$20,46741%
- Gifts$160%
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 | 102 | $27,575 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 137 | $16,247 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 12 | $1,526 |
| BD | 10 | $1,100 |
| Davol Inc. | 12 | $807 |
| TAS Medical, Inc. | 16 | $695 |
| Conmed Corporation | 6 | $385 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 6 | $352 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $273 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $244 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $236 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 4 | $80 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $76 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 2 | $62 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $57 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $49 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $34 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Vertex | 1 | $27 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $19 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Boston Scientific | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$25,457
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$6,677
- Ovitex$4,355
- Phasix Mesh$1,303
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$1,176
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$818
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$273
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$273
- VAC VERAFLO$226
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$146
- OviTex 2S$141
- AIRSEAL$136
- PREVENA$121
- PHASIX$110
- VAC ULTA$106
- VAC VIA$106
How this compares
$49,967 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 290 surgery providers in Oklahoma.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 126 | $491 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 146 | $304 |
| Naproxen | 97 | $190 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 15 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Tulsa
- Craig JohnsonTulsa$573K
- Eugene DickensTulsa$456K
- William JenningsTulsa$412K
- Bryce MurrayTulsa$152K
- Samuel PangburnTulsa$50K
- Jared LepleyTulsa$48K
- Ty KirkpatrickTulsa$28K
- John KingTulsa$24K
- Michael ThomasTulsa$22K
- Geoffrey ChowTulsa$22K
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.