Thomas Clements, MD
Trauma Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1477225209
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (36.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 36.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,538 and has fallen 95.9% since, to $104 in 2025.
Across 25 payments — averaging $236.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Davol Inc.$417
- Teleflex LLC$359
- Kerecis Limited$190
- Baxter Healthcare$189
- plus $595 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,98434%
- Food & beverage$1,76830%
- Education$2,16437%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $2,165 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $2,000 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $417 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $359 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $190 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $189 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $177 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $164 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $133 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $74 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $24 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$2,000
- SYNFIX Evolution$1,984
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$615
- QuikClot$269
- INTEGRA$254
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$164
- Phasix Mesh$159
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$154
- OMNIGRAFT$127
- SURGIMEND$127
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$127
- PerClot$121
How this compares
$5,916 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 108 trauma 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.
Other trauma surgery in Houston
- Jennifer MoffettHouston$68K
- Michael WandlingHouston$25K
- Mitchell GeorgeHouston$12K
- Luis FernandezTyler$493K
- Billy MorganWaco$122K
- Sudeep BurmanAustin$72K
- Michael EricksonGalveston$18K
- Ryan KennedyDallas$18K
- Thomas GoaleyMansfield$17K
- Tessa WoodsFort Worth$17K
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.