Sricharan Chalikonda, MD
Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1568479145
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.9%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.2%.
Across 32 payments — averaging $116.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$791
- Distalmotion US$640
- Johnson & Johnson$495
- Steris Instrument Management Services, Inc.$321
- Steris Corporation$272
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$247
- plus $969 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3339%
- Travel & lodging$1,53841%
- Food & beverage$1,86450%
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 | 3 | $791 |
| Distalmotion US | 3 | $640 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $495 |
| Steris Instrument Management Services, Inc. | 2 | $321 |
| Steris Corporation | 2 | $272 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $247 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $228 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $207 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $158 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $130 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $111 |
| Stryker | 1 | $17 |
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$772
- DEXTER L6 ROBOT$640
- INTEGRA$261
- HARMONYAIR EQUIPMENT BOOMS$252
- HARMONYAIR EQUIPMENT COLUMN, SUPPLY HEAD$252
- HARMONY IQ OR INTEGRATION SYSTEM 3000 SERIES$252
- HARMONYAIR LED SURGICAL LIGHTING SYSTEM$252
- HARMONYAIR VLED SURGICAL LIGHTING SYSTEM$252
- WATCHMAN Access System$158
- MONOCRYL$142
- PICO$142
- RENASYS GO v2 HOME$142
- OMNIGRAFT$130
- SURGIMEND$130
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$130
- DERMABOND PRINEO$125
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$125
- HANAROSTENT Esophagus TTS(CCC)$119
- EndoClot PHS$119
- Restrata Wound Matrix$118
How this compares
$3,735 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th 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.
Other surgery in Austin
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- Nancy MarquezAustin$700K
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- Francis BuzadAustin$198K
- Francis BuckleyAustin$169K
- Eric AchesonAustin$113K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- 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.