Jose Mejia Aguirre, MD
Surgery · Ephrata, PANPI 1992737373
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 52 payments — averaging $43.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$994
- Davol Inc.$327
- Smith+Nephew$116
- Baxter Healthcare$103
- TELA Bio, Inc.$74
- Vertex$70
- plus $553 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$55525%
- Food & beverage$1,68175%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 9 | $994 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $327 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $116 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $103 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $74 |
| Vertex | 4 | $70 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $69 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $47 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $46 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $45 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $45 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $24 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $22 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $18 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $17 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $11 |
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$896
- PROGEL$142
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$130
How this compares
$2,236 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,424 surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 27 | $71 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 12 | $59 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 24 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Ephrata
- David YearsleyEphrata$60K
- Giorgos KarakousisPhiladelphia$8.8M
- James MarkmannPhiladelphia$1.8M
- John MiuraPhiladelphia$1.3M
- Martin WijkstromPittsburgh$1.3M
- Andy KiserPittsburgh$1.1M
- Blair JobePittsburgh$827K
- Glenn SteeleDanville$698K
- Olwadamilola FayanjuPhiladelphia$668K
- Maher El ChaarAllentown$667K
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.