John Abikhaled, MD
Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1639108731
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $12,000 of the $18,843 with a category attached, or 63.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 84.0% of it on its own, with 30 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,538 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $233 in 2025.
Across 100 payments — averaging $188.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$16K
- Davol Inc.$634
- Medtronic$369
- Johnson & Johnson$311
- Kerecis Limited$255
- Boston Scientific$172
- plus $1K from 25 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $12,271 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$86K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5003%
- Travel & lodging$1,3567%
- Food & beverage$4,98726%
- Education$12,00064%
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 | $15,826 |
| Davol Inc. | 9 | $634 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $369 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $311 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $255 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $172 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 2 | $164 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 6 | $134 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $123 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $118 |
| BD | 2 | $85 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $63 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $60 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $51 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| Senseonics, Incorporated | 2 | $32 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $23 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $17 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $17 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $12 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Bolder Surgical LLC | 1 | $9 |
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
$18,843 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 40 | $135 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $18 |
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
- Eric AchesonAustin$113K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
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.