Jim Garza
Houston, TXNPI 1033147319
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (52.9%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 73.9% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,203 and has fallen 95.6% since, to $450 in 2022.
Across 105 payments — averaging $125.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- Davol Inc.$2K
- C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$696
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$195
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$153
- Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$118
- plus $50 from 1 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $42,828 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$214K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$9507%
- Travel & lodging$6,97853%
- Food & beverage$4,07431%
- Education$1,0008%
- Gifts$1971%
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 | 73 | $9,753 |
| Davol Inc. | 23 | $2,236 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 4 | $696 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $195 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $153 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $50 |
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$7,761
- PHASIX$1,713
- Phasix Plug and Patch$450
- HTX-011$169
- EXPAREL$153
- DSUVIA$118
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.