Chukwuma Apakama, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Plano, TXNPI 1154642478
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.0%), travel and lodging and gifts — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 29.8% of the total.
Across 90 payments — averaging $58.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Endogastric Solutions, Inc$1K
- Medtronic$938
- Johnson & Johnson$422
- Davol Inc.$293
- Vivus LLC$213
- plus $596 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,53548%
- Food & beverage$2,68751%
- Gifts$471%
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 | 18 | $1,569 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 5 | $1,238 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $938 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $422 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $293 |
| Vivus LLC | 16 | $213 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $119 |
| Levita Magnetics International Corp | 3 | $82 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $81 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $66 |
| Levita Magnetics International Corp. | 4 | $64 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $30 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $21 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ESOPHYX$1,154
- Da Vinci Surgical System$918
- LigaSure$763
- PHASIX$260
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$156
- VISTASEAL$156
- Harmonic$156
- SURGIMEND$119
How this compares
$5,269 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 104 surgical critical care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 39 | $41,350 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $230 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 36 | $220 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical critical care in Plano
- Samir AwadHouston$1.6M
- Sharmilla DissanaikeLubbock$844K
- Robert SouthardHouston$215K
- Rondel AlbaradoHouston$197K
- Anthony CahillWaco$43K
- Michael CorneilleSan Antonio$35K
- Christopher CouchTyler$30K
- Ryan KostkaFort Worth$30K
- Daniel BonvilleHouston$28K
- Caesar RicciFort Worth$27K
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.