John Uecker, MD
Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1508889205
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 67 payments — averaging $1546.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alafair Biosciences, Inc.$52K
- Intuitive Surgical$48K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$1K
- Distalmotion US$1K
- Medtronic$450
- Davol Inc.$341
- plus $498 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,6997%
- Food & beverage$4,1958%
- Education$43,60085%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 4 | $52,156 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 38 | $47,579 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 10 | $1,451 |
| Distalmotion US | 1 | $1,150 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $450 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $341 |
| BD | 1 | $134 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $124 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $107 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $75 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Moon Surgical | 1 | $27 |
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$47,090
- DEXTER L6 ROBOT$1,150
- OviTex 2S$932
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$175
- ALLOMAX$134
- PHASIX$134
- Sonicision$133
- SpyGlass Discover$107
How this compares
$103,626 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
Other surgery in Austin
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$924K
- Nancy MarquezAustin$700K
- Alejandro EsquivelAustin$631K
- Richard FlemingAustin$231K
- Jeffrey AppleAustin$219K
- Francis BuzadAustin$198K
- Francis BuckleyAustin$186K
- Funda MericHouston$20.6M
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.