Maria Martinez Ugarte, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1346424264
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $34,264 of the $47,018 with a category attached, or 72.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 82.6% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $21,584 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $656 in 2025.
Across 222 payments — averaging $211.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$39K
- Medtronic$5K
- Johnson & Johnson$532
- Baxter Healthcare$393
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$367
- Exelixis Inc.$254
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,9426%
- Food & beverage$9,75521%
- Education$34,26473%
- Gifts$560%
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 | 62 | $38,833 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 79 | $4,812 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 18 | $532 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $393 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 6 | $367 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 2 | $254 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 10 | $238 |
| Davol Inc. | 7 | $222 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $202 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 3 | $154 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $153 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $149 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $117 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $96 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $62 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $37 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $29 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $26 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$22,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$14,965
- INTERSTIM$3,052
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$356
- CellerateRx$278
- Cabometyx$254
- HemoBlast Bellows$149
- Ovitex$146
- Phasix Mesh$133
- TISSEEL$129
- INTERSTIM ICON$125
- FLOSEAL$122
- Echelon Circular$119
- Ozempic$117
- VISTASEAL$117
- Enseal$117
- Harmonic$117
- EEA$109
How this compares
$47,018 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 200 colon & rectal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 153 | $2,715 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 126 | $1,917 |
| Methocarbamol | 93 | $1,145 |
| CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar) | 12 | $910 |
| Gabapentin | 119 | $679 |
| Ibuprofen | 108 | $627 |
| LoperamideLoperamide Hcl | 21 | $426 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 34 | $344 |
| Metronidazole | 50 | $316 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 23 | $265 |
| Hydrocortisone | 22 | $241 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 34 | $200 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 37 | $194 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 17 | $182 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 19 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in San Antonio
- Christopher de JesusSan Antonio$201K
- William LewisSan Antonio$85K
- Jaime MayoralSan Antonio$84K
- Michael KellerSan Antonio$50K
- James PrietoSan Antonio$16K
- Rolando SaenzSan Antonio$15K
- Mario AlcantaraSan Antonio$14K
- Thiru LakshmanAustin$756K
- Diego Marines CopadoHouston$462K
- Bidhan DasSugar Land$350K
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.