Caleb Sallee, MD
Surgery · Lubbock, TXNPI 1164659397
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.8%), travel and lodging and gifts — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 92.4% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,608 and has fallen 87.5% since, to $327 in 2025.
Across 65 payments — averaging $93.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Stryker$134
- Coopersurgical, Inc.$68
- Endomagnetics Ltd$46
- Innovation Technologies Inc$24
- Baxter Healthcare$22
- plus $171 from 11 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $9800.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC$10K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,59643%
- Food & beverage$3,22553%
- Gifts$2825%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 45 | $5,636 |
| Stryker | 2 | $134 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 2 | $46 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $22 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $20 |
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $18 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
| Amgen | 1 | $11 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $8 |
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$4,344
How this compares
$6,102 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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 | 42 | $341 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 92 | $228 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $215 |
| Lidocaine-PrilocaineLidocaine/Prilocaine | 16 | $173 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 20 | $93 |
| Metronidazole | 12 | $18 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Lubbock
- 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.