Robert Ellis, MD
Trauma Surgery · Tyler, TXNPI 1093864027
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $2,500 of the $3,827 with a category attached, or 65.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 82.6% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,179, more than ten times the $32 reported in 2019.
Across 32 payments — averaging $119.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$278
- Shionogi Inc$128
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$93
- TELA Bio, Inc.$43
- Baudax Bio Inc.$21
- plus $102 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$53714%
- Food & beverage$79121%
- Education$2,50065%
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 | 6 | $3,163 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $278 |
| Shionogi Inc | 5 | $128 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $93 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $18 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $17 |
| Romark Laboratories, LC | 1 | $15 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $13 |
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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$2,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$651
How this compares
$3,827 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 108 trauma 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.
Other trauma surgery in Tyler
- Luis FernandezTyler$493K
- Melissa CloonanTyler$3K
- Afshan HussainTyler$3K
- Billy MorganWaco$122K
- Sudeep BurmanAustin$72K
- Jennifer MoffettHouston$68K
- Michael WandlingHouston$25K
- Michael EricksonGalveston$18K
- Ryan KennedyDallas$18K
- Thomas GoaleyMansfield$17K
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.