Patricio Polanco, MD
Surgical Oncology · Dallas, TXNPI 1447552245
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (48.5%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 63.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $37,964, more than ten times the $2,227 reported in 2019. Among surgical oncology 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.
Across 90 payments — averaging $672.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$38K
- Medtronic$19K
- Sirtex Medical Inc$2K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$655
- Davol Inc.$343
- Baxter Healthcare$146
- plus $256 from 3 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $17,562 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$158K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$13,50022%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,77511%
- Travel & lodging$7,33712%
- Food & beverage$3,5276%
- Education$29,36849%
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 | 54 | $38,333 |
| Medtronic | 26 | $19,025 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 1 | $1,750 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $655 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $343 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $146 |
| BD | 1 | $134 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $68 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
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$37,217
- Signia$3,616
- SIR-Spheres Microspheres$1,750
- DA VINCI SP$600
- PHASIX$244
- PREVELEAK$146
- LigaSure$137
- ALLOMAX$134
How this compares
$60,508 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 191 surgical oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 12 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical oncology in Dallas
- Allison DipasqualeDallas$272K
- Adam YoppDallas$96K
- Peter BeitschDallas$62K
- William McNamaraDallas$16K
- Glen BalchDallas$11K
- Michael ChotiDallas$6K
- Deborah FarrDallas$4K
- David KangDallas$4K
- Merrick RossHouston$216K
- John HardawayShenandoah$164K
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.