Erik Throop, MD
Surgery · Evansville, INNPI 1659370542
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $20,936 of the $25,866 with a category attached, or 80.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 86.7% of it on its own, with 30 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $9,617 and has fallen 74.7% since, to $2,437 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in IN 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 150 payments — averaging $172.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$22K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$305
- TELA Bio, Inc.$251
- AbbVie$236
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$190
- plus $946 from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8113%
- Food & beverage$4,10316%
- Education$20,93681%
- 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 | 33 | $22,419 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 38 | $1,519 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $305 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 15 | $251 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 14 | $236 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $190 |
| CSL Behring | 7 | $150 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $64 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 4 | $56 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $53 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $52 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $50 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Merck | 1 | $31 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $31 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $27 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $21 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Stryker | 1 | $11 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$16,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$5,219
- VISTASEAL$187
- STRATAFIX$187
- DERMABOND$187
- EVARREST$187
- SURGIFLO Hemostatic Matrix$187
How this compares
$25,866 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 524 surgery providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 11 | $7,256 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $122 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 41 | $79 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $1,519 | $7,25611 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 524 surgery providers in Indiana.
Other surgery in Evansville
- Roberto IglesiasEvansville$27K
- Kevin McConnellEvansville$20K
- Mindy LaneEvansville$16K
- Todd BurryEvansville$15K
- Andrea JesterEvansville$14K
- Paul SzotekIndianapolis$2.4M
- Carlos Gonzalez RendonMunster$275K
- Anthony ZappiaCarmel$105K
- Jeremy Luedtkela Porte$102K
- Patricia ClarkFort Wayne$82K
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.