Craig Olson, MD
Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1629272406
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (55.2%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 74.1% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 52 payments — averaging $433.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$17K
- RTI Surgical, Inc$4K
- Davol Inc.$500
- Medtronic$353
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$180
- Cook Biotech Incorporated$161
- plus $522 from 9 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $351.04 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.
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,00018%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,50011%
- Travel & lodging$8844%
- Food & beverage$2,71312%
- Education$12,45055%
- 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 | 24 | $16,718 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 3 | $4,126 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $500 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $353 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $180 |
| Cook Biotech Incorporated | 2 | $161 |
| Stryker | 2 | $116 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $108 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $100 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $36 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $27 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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$16,376
- BIODESIGN$4,263
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$180
- INTERSTIM$127
- LigaSure$124
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$100
How this compares
$22,560 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar) | 11 | $1,157 |
| LoperamideLoperamide Hcl | 14 | $316 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $105 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 30 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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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.