Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Diego Marines Copado

Colon & Rectal Surgery Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1588891659 CMS profile 162453

18220 Tomball Pkwy, Suite 280, Houston, TX 77070

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General payments

$461,981

724 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Diego Marines Copado of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $461,981 across 724 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Colon & Rectal Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $177,567 194
2024 General $149,606 192
2023 General $91,711 154
2022 General $30,981 92
2021 General $1,530 20
2020 General $4,796 29
2019 General $5,790 43

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Diego Marines Copado
  • Colon & Rectal Surgery median
  • Middle half of Colon & Rectal Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Diego Marines Copado were reported at $177,567. Among 1,481 Colon & Rectal Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $317 and the middle half received between $109 and $1,248.

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Year Diego Marines Copado Colon & Rectal Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $5,790 $443 $125–$2,179 $163
2020 $4,796 $167 $53–$931 $114
2021 $1,530 $207 $72–$1,272 $132
2022 $30,981 $341 $111–$1,587 $149
2023 $91,711 $322 $115–$1,420 $160
2024 $149,606 $328 $112–$1,354 $164
2025 $177,567 $317 $109–$1,248 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $224,345 313 payments
  2. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $82,207 117 payments
  3. Davol Inc. $60,643 88 payments
  4. Ethicon US, LLC $52,546 116 payments
  5. Ethicon Inc. $17,985 8 payments
  6. Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc. $14,850 2 payments
  7. CONMED Corporation $3,513 9 payments
  8. New Wave Endo-Surgical Corp. $1,816 1 payment
  9. Medtronic, Inc. $807 18 payments
  10. Applied Medical Resources Corporation $758 3 payments
  11. Other $2,510 49 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $147,262 45 payments
  2. Education $136,285 62 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $72,296 256 payments
  4. Honoraria $45,000 13 payments
  5. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $39,000 18 payments
  6. Food and Beverage $21,979 323 payments
  7. Entertainment $119 4 payments
  8. Gift $40 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Da Vinci Surgical System $209,195 307 payments
  2. Echelon Circular $80,316 33 payments
  3. Harmonic $58,656 46 payments
  4. Enseal $20,082 26 payments
  5. STRATAFIX $18,363 10 payments
  6. DA VINCI SP $12,150 5 payments
  7. ARISTA $11,325 45 payments
  8. VICRYL $9,000 1 payment
  9. PDS $9,000 1 payment
  10. MONOCRYL $9,000 1 payment
  11. Other $32,803 235 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 4 drugs

Part D claims

170

Median for Colorectal Surgery (Proctology): 106

Drug cost

$4,196

Median for Colorectal Surgery (Proctology): $1,614

Branded share of claims

50%

Median for Colorectal Surgery (Proctology): 35.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag Sulf Sodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates Brand 68 $3,967
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 17 $108
Neomycin Sulfate Generic 42 $76
Metronidazole Generic 43 $45

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 1,507 Part D prescribers listed as Colorectal Surgery (Proctology); they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 64 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$82,092

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

125

Average age 75

Services billed

311

84 women, 41 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 54%
Ischemic heart disease 47%
Chronic kidney disease 38%
Cancer 38%
Depression 32%
Diabetes 31%
COPD 25%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

1 product · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
Wegovy
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $24
$24 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

724 reported

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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