Charles Erck, MD
Surgery · Stephenville, TXNPI 1811992407
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $14,500 of the $15,285 with a category attached, or 94.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 96.6% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $14,764 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $15 in 2025.
Across 23 payments — averaging $664.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Medtronic$143
- Boehringer Ingelheim$122
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$52
- Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc$46
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$43
- plus $116 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2642%
- Food & beverage$5223%
- Education$14,50095%
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 | 7 | $14,764 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $143 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $122 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $52 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 3 | $46 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $43 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
| Amgen | 1 | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
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$14,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$258
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$143
- JARDIANCE$122
How this compares
$15,285 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 180 | $11,158 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 21 | $138 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Stephenville
- 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.