Suellen Arentz, MD
Surgical Oncology · Houston, TXNPI 1487854840
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 53 payments — averaging $29.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vector Surgical, LLC$300
- Tempus AI, Inc$141
- Amgen$128
- Tesaro, Inc.$113
- AbbVie$100
- Pfizer$100
- plus $681 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,54599%
- Education$171%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vector Surgical, LLC | 1 | $300 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 5 | $141 |
| Amgen | 6 | $128 |
| Tesaro, Inc. | 3 | $113 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $100 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $100 |
| Axogen | 1 | $92 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $77 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 3 | $59 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $58 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $42 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $38 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Seagen Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Mylan Institutional Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $15 |
| AstraZeneca | 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.
- NATRELLE$100
How this compares
$1,562 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 191 surgical oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 87 | $310 |
| Tamoxifen Citrate | 13 | $214 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 17 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical oncology in Houston
- Jennifer WargoHouston$6M
- Ernest CampHouston$3.6M
- Hop Tran CaoHouston$928K
- Elizabeth GrubbsHouston$750K
- Alastair ThompsonHouston$568K
- Merrick RossHouston$283K
- Kelly HuntHouston$206K
- Ashley HolderHouston$156K
- Jean-Nicolas VautheyHouston$153K
- Rosario HwangHouston$139K
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.