Hugh Babineau, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (49.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 79.7% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $17,456 and has fallen 97.2% since, to $487 in 2025.
Across 174 payments — averaging $134.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$19K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$854
- TELA Bio, Inc.$320
- AbbVie$297
- Davol Inc.$286
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,30823%
- Food & beverage$6,39427%
- Education$11,59150%
- Entertainment$350%
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 | 111 | $18,598 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 12 | $1,482 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 17 | $854 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $320 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $297 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $286 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $267 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $165 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $162 |
| My01 Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $118 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Stryker | 1 | $102 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $87 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $59 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $30 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Vertex | 1 | $24 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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$15,914
- STRATAFIX$1,171
- HARMONIC Product Family$1,052
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$1,052
- Irrisept$267
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$244
- VISTASEAL$239
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$165
- MY01 Continuous Compartmental Pressure Monitor$143
- Megadyne$123
- SURGIFLO Hemostatic Matrix Family of Products$120
- Enseal$119
- ETHICON$119
- LigaSure$118
- Echelon Flex$115
- ABTHERA ADVANCE$114
- DERMATAC$114
- V.A.C. VERAFLO CLEANSE CHOICE$114
- EXPAREL$112
- Phasix Mesh$106
How this compares
$23,328 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 13 | $237 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 44 | $137 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Tyler
- 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
- Erik WilsonBellaire$610K
- Folahan AyoolaDenton$570K
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.