David Straus, MD
Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1225370703
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (31.2%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 81.6% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $6,238 and has fallen 90.6% since, to $588 in 2025.
Across 106 payments — averaging $111.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- Davol Inc.$875
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$239
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$225
- Boston Scientific$173
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$157
- plus $509 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,50013%
- Travel & lodging$3,68831%
- Food & beverage$3,48629%
- Education$3,14827%
- Gifts$160%
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 | 52 | $9,660 |
| Davol Inc. | 16 | $875 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 11 | $239 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $225 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $173 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $157 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $128 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $94 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $84 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $27 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $25 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $19 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $18 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Smith+Nephew | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$7,055
- DA VINCI SP$1,500
- Phasix Mesh$507
- CellerateRx$157
- SpyGlass Discover$143
How this compares
$11,838 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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.
Other surgery in San Antonio
- Richard PetersonSan Antonio$323K
- Joseph KaramSan Antonio$293K
- John PilcherSan Antonio$214K
- John MeterskySan Antonio$158K
- Kent van SickleSan Antonio$143K
- Richard EnglehardtSan Antonio$107K
- Guillermo Portillo RamilaSan Antonio$102K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
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.