Christopher de Jesus, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1184019374
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $176,623 of the $200,620 with a category attached, or 88.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.3% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $105,084 and has fallen 76.5% since, to $24,731 in 2025. Among colon & rectal 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 205 payments — averaging $978.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$199K
- Medtronic$370
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$174
- Kerecis Limited$156
- Solventum Corporation$144
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$100
- plus $549 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,0002%
- Travel & lodging$7,5764%
- Food & beverage$12,4076%
- Education$176,62388%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 162 | $199,126 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $370 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $174 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $156 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $144 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $84 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $69 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $43 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $24 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $21 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $20 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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$191,353
- DA VINCI SP$3,500
- DAVINCI XI$3,000
- Kerecis SurgiClose$626
- Kerecis GraftGuide$156
- V.A.C. ULTA$144
- PREVENA$144
How this compares
$200,620 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 200 colon & rectal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 14 | $233 |
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 12 | $179 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in San Antonio
- William LewisSan Antonio$85K
- Jaime MayoralSan Antonio$84K
- Michael KellerSan Antonio$50K
- Maria Martinez UgarteSan Antonio$47K
- James PrietoSan Antonio$16K
- Rolando SaenzSan Antonio$15K
- Mario AlcantaraSan Antonio$14K
- Thiru LakshmanAustin$756K
- Diego Marines CopadoHouston$462K
- Bidhan DasSugar Land$350K
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.