Babak Abbassi, MD
Surgery · Greenville, TXNPI 1992151385
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $16,305 of the $24,835 with a category attached, or 65.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 83.9% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $17,514 and has fallen 90.4% since, to $1,690 in 2025.
Across 106 payments — averaging $234.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$21K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$305
- Johnson & Johnson$215
- KCI USA, Inc.$138
- plus $723 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$190%
- Travel & lodging$4,73519%
- Food & beverage$2,78611%
- Education$16,30566%
- Gifts$90%
- Other$9824%
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 | 60 | $20,826 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $1,560 |
| Stryker | 2 | $1,068 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $305 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $215 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $138 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $124 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $94 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $82 |
| BD | 1 | $54 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Mindray DS USA, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $41 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $30 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $24 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Merck | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $20 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $19 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Incyte Corporation | 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$12,371
- DAVINCI XI$7,500
- 1588 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$1,068
- MICROMATRIX$982
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$539
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$539
- PRIMATRIX$539
- IDRT$539
- FLOWABLE$539
- ABTHERA$125
- STRATAFIX$101
- MONOCRYL$101
- Echelon Flex$101
- EVARREST$101
- Enseal$101
How this compares
$24,835 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 62 | $664 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $135 |
| Omeprazole | 11 | $94 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Greenville
- 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.