Ashley Mekala, DO
Surgery · North Richland Hills, TXNPI 1205197217
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $80,000 of the $99,139 with a category attached, or 80.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 94.5% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $41,349 and has fallen 95.6% since, to $1,803 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 244 payments — averaging $406.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$94K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$789
- TELA Bio, Inc.$744
- Davol Inc.$267
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,0006%
- Travel & lodging$5,4696%
- Food & beverage$7,6708%
- Education$80,00081%
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 | 138 | $93,697 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $1,348 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $1,278 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 29 | $789 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 21 | $744 |
| Davol Inc. | 9 | $267 |
| Acell, Inc. | 3 | $152 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $133 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $104 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 3 | $92 |
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $65 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $42 |
| Stryker | 1 | $22 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $19 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $16 |
| Neuros Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Levita Magnetics International Corp | 1 | $13 |
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.
How this compares
$99,139 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 17 | $152 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 12 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in North Richland Hills
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
- Nancy MarquezAustin$700K
- Sachin KukrejaDallas$640K
- Alejandro EsquivelAustin$631K
- Erik WilsonBellaire$610K
- Folahan AyoolaDenton$570K
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.