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Seamguard Staple Line Reinforcement

Payments companies reported to CMS as associated with Seamguard Staple Line Reinforcement. "Associated with" is CMS's wording: it links a payment to a product without saying the money was spent on it.

$255Kassociated payments (2023-2025)
119clinicians with associated payments
1company reporting

By year

2023 $204K
2024 $51K
2025 $104

Payments reported as associated with Seamguard Staple Line Reinforcement, per program year, as reported to CMS.

Who makes it

Specialties most often involved

Surgery $238K
Plastic Surgery $15K
Physician Assistant $713
Colon & Rectal Surgery $247
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism $240
Family $206

Where the associated payments went, by the receiving clinician's specialty.

Clinicians most associated with Seamguard Staple Line Reinforcement

These are the largest totals companies reported as associated with Seamguard Staple Line Reinforcement. They are typically speaking or consulting arrangements, which companies must report by law; appearing here is not evidence of anything improper.

ClinicianLocationSpecialtyAssociated payments (2023-2025)
Jaime Ponce-Portugal Chattanooga, TN Surgery $26,849.62
Erik Wilson Bellaire, TX Surgery $22,137.65
Carlos Galvani New Orleans, LA Surgery $19,175.00
Farah Husain Portland, OR Surgery $17,716.59
Brant Heniford Charlotte, NC Surgery $16,815.00
Vivek Prachand Chicago, IL Surgery $16,669.76
William Cobb Greenville, SC Surgery $15,672.74
John Scott Greenville, SC Surgery $15,628.20
Matthew Goldblatt Milwaukee, WI Surgery $15,340.00
John Fischer Philadelphia, PA Plastic Surgery $15,160.07

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.