RxDoctor Payments Data

William Lewis, MD

Colon & Rectal Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1437237369

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $72,800 of the $84,622 with a category attached, or 86.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.4% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $64,601 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $236 in 2025. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$84,622in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 119 payments — averaging $711.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$84K
  • Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$297
  • Biom'up France SAS$149
  • Johnson & Johnson$31
  • Exact Sciences$21
  • GSK$14
  • plus $14 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$1,0001%
  • Travel & lodging$6,9578%
  • Food & beverage$3,5674%
  • Education$72,80086%
  • Gifts$2970%

General payments by program year

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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.

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.

How this compares

$84,622 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 200 colon & rectal surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$148,662
Medicare patients
237
Services billed
436

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf29$4,672
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates49$3,278
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)22$1,017
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen36$459
Sodium Chloride0.9 % Sodium Chloride45$349
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav16$137
Tramadol Hcl37$132
Metronidazole12$99

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$297$4,67229 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 200 colon & rectal surgery providers in Texas.

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