Ankur Bhakta, DO
Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1164714127
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $70,500 of the $87,110 with a category attached, or 80.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 92.6% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $30,198 and has fallen 92.6% since, to $2,233 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 197 payments — averaging $442.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$81K
- Davol Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$501
- C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$369
- Smith+Nephew$359
- plus $954 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5002%
- Travel & lodging$8,74210%
- Food & beverage$6,3687%
- Education$70,50081%
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 | 101 | $80,691 |
| Davol Inc. | 33 | $2,119 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 18 | $2,115 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $501 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 2 | $369 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $359 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 9 | $207 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $189 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $108 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $93 |
| Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $48 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $38 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $30 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $14 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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$69,901
- DAVINCI XI$9,500
- AdvantageRib$1,608
- Phasix Mesh$1,192
- DA VINCI SP$500
- PHASIX$473
- OviTex 2S$340
- STRAVIX PL$145
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$138
- TRANSORB$134
- Stravix$103
How this compares
$87,110 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,830 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 28 | $431 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 50 | $419 |
| Levetiracetam | 12 | $384 |
| Gabapentin | 25 | $182 |
| Methocarbamol | 21 | $165 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 23 | $79 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Austin
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
- Nancy MarquezAustin$700K
- Alejandro EsquivelAustin$631K
- Francis BuzadAustin$198K
- Francis BuckleyAustin$169K
- Eric AchesonAustin$113K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
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.