Stephanie McNelis, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Austin, TXNPI 1205805637
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $9,035 of the $14,069 with a category attached, or 64.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 74.8% of it on its own, with 43 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,087 and has fallen 95.0% since, to $400 in 2025. Among obstetrics & gynecology 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 202 payments — averaging $69.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- AbbVie$388
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$250
- Minerva Surgical, Inc$246
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$210
- Pfizer$190
- plus $2K from 38 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$500%
- Travel & lodging$1,2829%
- Food & beverage$3,70226%
- Education$9,03564%
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 | 23 | $10,526 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 21 | $388 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 11 | $250 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 4 | $246 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 15 | $210 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $190 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 9 | $176 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 5 | $173 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 10 | $169 |
| Exact Sciences | 7 | $158 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 7 | $157 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 6 | $96 |
| Organon | 5 | $90 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 5 | $82 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 4 | $79 |
| Biogen | 4 | $78 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Bayer | 2 | $70 |
| Merck | 4 | $68 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $62 |
| Amgen | 4 | $60 |
| Millicent US Inc | 4 | $60 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $60 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 3 | $40 |
| BD | 2 | $38 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 2 | $37 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $35 |
| Lupin Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $25 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $24 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Acessa Health Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $16 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $16 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Channel Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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$10,128
How this compares
$14,069 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,099 obstetrics & gynecology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol | 31 | $2,412 |
| Estradiol (Twice Weekly)Estradiol | 16 | $1,742 |
| ProgesteroneProgesterone, Micronized | 11 | $570 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Austin
- Devin GarzaAustin$2M
- Shawn TassoneAustin$1.3M
- Renu ChalasaniAustin$156K
- Sharyl Brasher-GilesAustin$42K
- Dale StovallDallas$590K
- Karyn-Anne CumberbatchMissouri City$452K
- Robert AsgharianEl Paso$366K
- Catherine HansenWebster$357K
- Lisa JukesBee Cave$270K
- Susan CrockettLive Oak$269K
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.