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Covered recipient · General Payments record

WADE NICOLAS KARAM

CMS profile
11561668
Location
HOUSTON, TX

This page merges CMS profile IDs 11561668, 11906325 — associated profiles published by CMS for the same covered recipient. See the colophon below.

General Payments · PY2023–2025

$3,500.09

  • Reported across 52 records
  • CMS publication 2026-06-30

Latest program year · PY2025

$3,464.55

50 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • This total is the sum of the individual General Payments record amounts CMS published for the labeled program year(s); each record amount is used unmodified. The total itself is computed by this site. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $2,566.62 48
Travel and Lodging $897.93 2

By paying entity

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
VB Spine LLC $1,091.31 13
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $753.52 11
Globus Medical, Inc. $533.30 7
Stryker Corporation $401.56 10
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $226.85 4
Medtronic, Inc. $155.23 1
Centinel Spine, LLC $145.17 1
SI-BONE, INC. $105.14 1
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $52.47 2

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2023 $25.97 1
PY2024 $9.57 1
PY2025 $3,464.55 50

Payment records · PY2025 (50)

Ordering applied by this site (paying entity, then date) · record values are shown as CMS published them

Program year 2025 20232024 Record-level detail is published for PY2025; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Centinel Spine, LLC $145.17 10/03/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1238950560 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $51.86 01/03/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174186446 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $42.58 01/16/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174185951 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $39.62 01/22/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174186559 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $99.53 01/30/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174187327 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $21.98 01/30/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174187483 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $33.82 01/31/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174186055 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $135.95 03/24/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174186673 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $22.98 03/26/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174185844 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $148.54 06/11/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174187355 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $136.23 11/15/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174186989 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $20.43 12/13/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174186896 CMS
Globus Medical, Inc. $144.13 02/26/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1250021282 CMS
Globus Medical, Inc. $137.51 07/25/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1250050005 CMS
Globus Medical, Inc. $154.17 08/07/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1250029286 CMS
Globus Medical, Inc. $8.68 09/30/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1250078644 CMS
Globus Medical, Inc. $29.43 10/01/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1250099825 CMS
Globus Medical, Inc. $17.91 10/29/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1250085901 CMS
Globus Medical, Inc. $41.47 11/15/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1250113737 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $155.23 02/19/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1218982480 CMS
SI-BONE, INC. $105.14 08/26/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1241118856 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $33.02 01/28/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1242290441 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $24.52 03/05/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1242290443 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $139.08 03/07/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1242290445 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $30.23 05/27/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1242290447 CMS
Stryker Corporation $20.42 01/06/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227648281 CMS
Stryker Corporation $27.61 01/07/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227648285 CMS
Stryker Corporation $65.54 01/14/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227648289 CMS
Stryker Corporation $30.31 02/23/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227648293 CMS
Stryker Corporation $11.30 04/19/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227648297 CMS
Stryker Corporation $46.43 05/10/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227648305 CMS
Stryker Corporation $47.90 05/16/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227648309 CMS
Stryker Corporation $15.57 05/17/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227648313 CMS
Stryker Corporation $86.48 06/17/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227648316 CMS
Stryker Corporation $50.00 07/03/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227648318 CMS
VB Spine LLC $400.96 07/02/2025 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 06/30/2026 1254115394 CMS
VB Spine LLC $13.27 07/24/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1254110580 CMS
VB Spine LLC $6.47 09/02/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1254110598 CMS
VB Spine LLC $8.54 09/03/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1254110596 CMS
VB Spine LLC $496.97 09/11/2025 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 06/30/2026 1254115234 CMS
VB Spine LLC $51.73 09/27/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1254110594 CMS
VB Spine LLC $3.30 09/28/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1254110588 CMS
VB Spine LLC $2.56 09/28/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1254110590 CMS
VB Spine LLC $5.25 09/28/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1254110592 CMS
VB Spine LLC $26.61 09/29/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1254110578 CMS
VB Spine LLC $9.85 10/14/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1254110586 CMS
VB Spine LLC $51.83 11/14/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1254110584 CMS
VB Spine LLC $13.97 11/19/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1254110582 CMS
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $26.94 01/03/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1246847861 CMS
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $25.53 05/23/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1246847855 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2023, 2024, 2025
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2023 , PY2024 , PY2025
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv
Merged CMS profile IDs
11561668, 11906325

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