Murugan Athigaman, MD
Surgery · Carlsbad, NMNPI 1588620488
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $5,500 of the $7,144 with a category attached, or 77.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 93.9% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,710, more than ten times the $290 reported in 2019.
Across 16 payments — averaging $446.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc.$162
- Terumo Medical Corporation$146
- Medtronic$95
- Boston Scientific$19
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$13
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,11916%
- Food & beverage$5257%
- Education$5,50077%
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 | 8 | $6,710 |
| Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc. | 2 | $162 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $146 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $95 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $13 |
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$5,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,070
- All Products$125
How this compares
$7,144 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 162 surgery providers in New Mexico.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole | 11 | $3,630 |
| Sucralfate | 44 | $1,670 |
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 41 | $685 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 30 | $507 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 31 | $344 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 12 | $246 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 17 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Carlsbad
- Abi JamesCarlsbad$12K
- Mario LeybaAlbuquerque$1.2M
- Michael BleaAlbuquerque$420K
- David HoangAlbuquerque$264K
- Erica McBrideAlbuquerque$95K
- Fermin FontanLas Cruces$87K
- Gregory BorahAlbuquerque$77K
- Edward AuyangAlbuquerque$70K
- Jacquelyn BrandenburgAlbuquerque$60K
- Jay ZhuAlbuquerque$57K
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.