Steven Vela, CRNA
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered · Dallas, TXNPI 1336279603
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 17 payments — averaging $78.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$736
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$247
- Edwards Lifesciences$141
- Abiomed$94
- Abbott$60
- BD$23
- plus $27 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$73655%
- Food & beverage$59245%
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 | 3 | $736 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $247 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 5 | $141 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $94 |
| Abbott | 3 | $60 |
| BD | 1 | $23 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Mindray DS USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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$730
- EXPAREL$247
How this compares
$1,328 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,115 nurse anesthetist, certified registered providers in Texas.
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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.
Other nurse anesthetist, certified registered in Dallas
- Monica LopezDallas$701K
- Amy RobbinsDallas$31K
- Siavosh SaateeDallas$14K
- Stephen LeeDallas$10K
- Melanie AtkinsonDallas$8K
- Brandon MitchellDallas$6K
- Mary BaskinDallas$4K
- Jennifer LorenzoDallas$4K
- Leigh LangleyDallas$3K
- Mindy HartDallas$3K
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.