Sachin Kukreja, MD
Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1528214590
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (51.5%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.0% of it on its own, with 28 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $147,051 and has fallen 75.1% since, to $36,648 in 2025. 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.
Across 1,015 payments — averaging $630.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$621K
- Conmed Corporation$6K
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$6K
- Aesculap, Inc.$4K
- Novo Nordisk$567
- Davol Inc.$400
- plus $2K from 23 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $2384.00 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.
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,8502%
- Speaking & faculty fees$207,60032%
- Travel & lodging$54,6879%
- Food & beverage$37,2366%
- Education$329,40051%
- Gifts$220%
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 | 914 | $620,632 |
| Conmed Corporation | 6 | $5,777 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 14 | $5,747 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $4,375 |
| Novo Nordisk | 11 | $567 |
| Davol Inc. | 9 | $400 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $308 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 3 | $200 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $190 |
| Lumendi LLC | 1 | $171 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $167 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $158 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Echosens North America, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 6 | $111 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $101 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $94 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $92 |
| Vivus LLC | 4 | $87 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $83 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $82 |
| Senseonics, Incorporated | 1 | $46 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| BD | 1 | $30 |
| Amgen | 1 | $28 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $12 |
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$569,527
- DA VINCI SP$37,600
- X-Tack Endoscopic HeliX Tacking System$5,922
- AIRSEAL$5,727
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$5,511
- NO APPLICABLE MARKETED PRODUCT NAME$4,375
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System Sx$2,800
- Signia$284
- Wegovy$241
- DiLumen EZ1, 103 cm$171
- DiLumen EZ1, 130 cm$171
- SEAMGUARD$147
- PHASIX$125
- RESOLUTION CLIP$121
- FibroScan$120
How this compares
$639,795 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,830 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 13 | $159 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $37 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Dallas
- Walton TaylorDallas$369K
- Steven LeedsDallas$193K
- Aaron HoffmanDallas$185K
- Lam leDallas$180K
- Bola AladegbamiDallas$91K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
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.