Edmund Chen
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (53.2%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 95.9% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $29,152 and has fallen 91.3% since, to $2,535 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 110 payments — averaging $342.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$36K
- Medtronic$466
- Intra-sana Laboratories$372
- TELA Bio, Inc.$140
- Olympus America Inc.$138
- Johnson & Johnson$107
- plus $320 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,00016%
- Travel & lodging$7,76021%
- Food & beverage$3,88110%
- Education$20,02653%
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 | 71 | $36,124 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $466 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 11 | $372 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 6 | $140 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $107 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $64 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $29 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $28 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $23 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Echosens North America, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 1 | $18 |
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$34,421
- DA VINCI SP$500
- Reltone 200 Mg$258
- GLYCATE$258
- Reltone 400 Mg$258
- Olympus$138
- LigaSure$124
How this compares
$37,667 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
Other surgery in Plano
- Dean CionePlano$322K
- Julianne SantarosaPlano$303K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
- Nancy MarquezAustin$700K
- Sachin KukrejaDallas$640K
- Alejandro EsquivelAustin$631K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.