Has Michael Ewing, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $450,243 in general payments to Michael Ewing, MD across 700 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Michael Ewing, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Michael Ewing, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Michael Ewing, MD

Surgery · Corpus Christi, TXNPI 1053708784

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $289,521 of the $450,243 with a category attached, or 64.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 92.7% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $190,213, more than ten times the $62 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$450,243in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 700 payments — averaging $643.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$418K
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$26K
Davol Inc.$2K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
Stryker$1K
Johnson & Johnson$535
plus $1K from 11 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$18,3604%
Speaking & faculty fees$65,90015%
Travel & lodging$47,60211%
Food & beverage$28,6956%
Education$289,52164%
Gifts$1650%

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	564	$417,587
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	80	$26,005
Davol Inc.	17	$2,338
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$1,362
Stryker	3	$1,209
Johnson & Johnson	11	$535
TELA Bio, Inc.	4	$331
Kerecis Limited	1	$233
Boston Scientific	2	$204
Medtronic	3	$165
Sirius Medical Systems	1	$69
Conmed Corporation	2	$68
Smith+Nephew	2	$40
Mesh Suture Inc	1	$36
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$32
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$16
Inari Medical, Inc.	1	$14

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$393,845
INTEGRA$17,690
DA VINCI SP$16,792
OMNIGRAFT$7,030
ADVANCED WOUND CARE$6,120
PRIMATRIX$5,011
DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$5,000
INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$1,400
LINX Reflux Management System$1,312
SPY-PHI SYSTEM$966
Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$699
INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$373
OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$256
SURGIMEND$255
INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$254
INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$254
Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$233
Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$233
1688$162
SPYGLASS$138

How this compares

$450,243 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$95,174

Medicare patients

147

Services billed

303

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	231	$1,011
Celecoxib	147	$531
Scopolamine	38	$506
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	227	$402
Gabapentin	172	$285
Tramadol Hcl	180	$202
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	53	$104
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	11	$70
Pantoprazole Sodium	13	$57

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Corpus Christi

Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
Steven FassAustin$989K
Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
Nancy MarquezAustin$700K
Sachin KukrejaDallas$640K
Alejandro EsquivelAustin$631K
Erik WilsonBellaire$610K
Folahan AyoolaDenton$570K

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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.

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