Eric Acheson, MD
Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1730152448
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $96,000 of the $113,039 with a category attached, or 84.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 88.5% of it on its own, with 25 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $64,063 and has fallen 87.5% since, to $8,013 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 169 payments — averaging $668.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$100K
- Medtronic$10K
- Enterra Medical, Inc.$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$296
- Moon Surgical$231
- Covidien LP$211
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,5615%
- Travel & lodging$2,7862%
- Food & beverage$8,6928%
- Education$96,00085%
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 | 63 | $99,984 |
| Medtronic | 37 | $9,551 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 11 | $1,437 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $296 |
| Moon Surgical | 4 | $231 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $211 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 5 | $206 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $188 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $182 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $121 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $92 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $72 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $56 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $48 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $40 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $26 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $18 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 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.
How this compares
$113,039 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 30 | $303 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 11 | $177 |
| Celecoxib | 23 | $146 |
| Gabapentin | 61 | $131 |
| Metformin Hcl | 14 | $116 |
| Omeprazole | 22 | $116 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Austin
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
- Nancy MarquezAustin$700K
- Alejandro EsquivelAustin$631K
- Francis BuzadAustin$198K
- Francis BuckleyAustin$169K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
- Sachin KukrejaDallas$640K
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.