Deshdeepak Sahni
Neurological Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1568628055
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 185 payments — averaging $38.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$2K
- Boston Scientific$760
- Globus Medical$376
- Stryker$233
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$205
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$501%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1152%
- Travel & lodging$3315%
- Food & beverage$6,32889%
- Education$2093%
- Gifts$441%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 62 | $2,239 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 51 | $1,910 |
| Boston Scientific | 22 | $760 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $376 |
| Stryker | 6 | $233 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 5 | $205 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $200 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 4 | $194 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 6 | $136 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $130 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $91 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $64 |
| Osteomed LLC | 3 | $53 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $50 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $45 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| 7d Surgical ULC | 1 | $17 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| DJO, LLC | 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.
- PROCLAIM$469
- COALITION AGX$376
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$283
- Intracept$217
- NT1100 NT2000iX Simplicity$151
- Axium$127
- IRRAflow$115
How this compares
$7,077 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $318 |
| Methocarbamol | 26 | $207 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Austin
- Daniel PetersonAustin$5.8M
- Douglas FoxAustin$948K
- John StokesAustin$581K
- Jon WillieAustin$417K
- Thomas LoftusAustin$379K
- John DormanOdessa$8.5M
- Daniel CurryHouston$3M
- Peter KanGalveston$1.8M
- Mirza BaigShenandoah$1.6M
- Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.