Yesenia Rojas-Khalil, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Houston, TXNPI 1467683029
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $2,000 of the $3,226 with a category attached, or 62.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 68.5% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,018 and has fallen 99.1% since, to $18 in 2025.
Across 20 payments — averaging $161.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Stryker$535
- Boston Scientific$123
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$119
- Johnson & Johnson$108
- Shire North American Group Inc$45
- plus $86 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$53517%
- Food & beverage$69121%
- Education$2,00062%
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 | 7 | $2,210 |
| Stryker | 3 | $535 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $123 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $119 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $108 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $45 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $33 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
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$2,000
- 1588 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$483
- AIM LAPARASCOPES$187
- RESOLUTION CLIP$123
- EXPAREL$119
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$105
How this compares
$3,226 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 104 surgical critical care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sodium Chloride0.9 % Sodium Chloride | 13 | $444 |
| Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine | 19 | $426 |
| Lactated RingersRinger's Solution,lactated | 16 | $281 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical critical care in Houston
- Samir AwadHouston$1.6M
- Robert SouthardHouston$215K
- Rondel AlbaradoHouston$197K
- Daniel BonvilleHouston$28K
- Martin ZielinskiHouston$14K
- Subhasis ChatterjeeHouston$13K
- Melissa StewartHouston$12K
- Alexi BloomHouston$12K
- Celia LedetHouston$9K
- Todd HuzarHouston$9K
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.