Brian Long
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (45.9%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 60.6% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 162 payments — averaging $147.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Medtronic$6K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Covidien LP$826
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$522
- Johnson & Johnson$505
- plus $142 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$11,01046%
- Food & beverage$6,44227%
- Education$6,50027%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 59 | $14,509 |
| Medtronic | 63 | $5,561 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,895 |
| Covidien LP | 10 | $826 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $522 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $505 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $31 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $24 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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$11,072
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- Signia$2,271
- LigaSure$1,814
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$297
- ProGrip$296
- Sonicision$192
- LINX Reflux Management System$129
- SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforcement$112
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$109
- Harmonic$109
- VISTASEAL$109
How this compares
$23,961 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
Other surgery in Plano
- Dean CionePlano$322K
- Julianne SantarosaPlano$303K
- 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
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.