Has Ashleigh Fontenot, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $25,516 in general payments to Ashleigh Fontenot, MD across 43 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ashleigh Fontenot, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ashleigh Fontenot, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ashleigh Fontenot, MD

Surgical Critical Care · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1952620957

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $21,500 of the $25,516 with a category attached, or 84.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.9% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $13,604 and has fallen 55.9% since, to $6,000 in 2025. Among surgical critical care clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$25,516in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $593.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$25K
Davol Inc.$214
Acera Surgical, Inc.$128
Baxter Healthcare$85
Johnson & Johnson$80
Cook Medical LLC$27

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,11212%
Food & beverage$9044%
Education$21,50084%

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	33	$24,983
Davol Inc.	4	$214
Acera Surgical, Inc.	2	$128
Baxter Healthcare	1	$85
Johnson & Johnson	1	$80
Cook Medical LLC	2	$27

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.

DAVINCI XI$15,500
Da Vinci Surgical System$8,835

How this compares

$25,516 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 104 surgical critical care providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$27,140

Medicare patients

101

Services billed

195

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
Oxycodone Hcl	16	$80

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Rejesh GandhiFort Worth$8K
Sarah ShawFort Worth$7K
Christopher DaiFort Worth$2K
Daniel ZieglerFort Worth$2K
Matthew PerrymanFort Worth$2K
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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.

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