Question 1

Has Tarek Souryal received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,195 in general payments to Tarek Souryal across 70 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Tarek Souryal did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

Where does this information about Tarek Souryal come from?

Accepted Answer

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Pylant Medical	5	$3,449
Arthrex	14	$618
GE HealthCare	1	$118
Johnson & Johnson	5	$118
Smith+Nephew	2	$103
Amgen	5	$93
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	5	$90
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	3	$59
Stryker	1	$55
Baudax Bio Inc.	3	$51
Vertex	2	$49
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$48
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$40
Avanos Medical	2	$36
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	3	$32
Theragen, Inc.	2	$28
Linvatec Corporation	1	$27
Bioventus LLC	1	$26
ERMI LLC	1	$25
Abbott	1	$23
Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC	2	$19
Arthrosurface Incorporated	1	$18
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	1	$17
Polynovo North America LLC	1	$14
Vericel Corporation	1	$13
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$13
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$11

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