Ernest Graves
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1578547188
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 62 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 25 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for colon & rectal surgery clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $4,072.
Across 62 payments — averaging $23.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$254
- Baxter Healthcare$145
- Trevena, Inc.$140
- Vioptix Inc$113
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$113
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$107
- plus $580 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,452100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $254 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $145 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 3 | $140 |
| Vioptix Inc | 1 | $113 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $113 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $107 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $44 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $42 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $40 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $38 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $24 |
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Romark Laboratories, LC | 1 | $23 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $22 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Medspira, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Olinvyk$105
How this compares
$1,452 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 200 colon & rectal surgery providers in Texas.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Austin
- Thiru LakshmanAustin$756K
- Amar ShahAustin$51K
- Andrew MillerAustin$41K
- Megan TurleyAustin$21K
- Ricardo SolisAustin$15K
- Diego Marines CopadoHouston$462K
- Bidhan DasSugar Land$350K
- Christopher de JesusSan Antonio$201K
- Farshid AraghizadehFort Worth$181K
- Jefferson HurleyIrving$163K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.