Alberto Gallo, MD
Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1558534859
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 55 payments — averaging $82.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Davol Inc.$275
- Baxter Healthcare$124
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$47
- Kerecis Limited$46
- Johnson & Johnson$44
- plus $180 from 10 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $500.00 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.
- Lucid Diagnostics Inc.$500
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,03945%
- Food & beverage$2,37652%
- Education$1213%
- Gifts$90%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 33 | $3,827 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $275 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $124 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $47 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $46 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $44 |
| Stryker | 1 | $26 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $15 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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$2,622
- Phasix Mesh$163
- TISSEEL$105
How this compares
$4,544 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 377 surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 41 | $328 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 32 | $111 |
| Omeprazole | 16 | $83 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 17 | $56 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Louisville
- John OldhamLouisville$515K
- Frank MillerLouisville$119K
- Jared DavisLouisville$89K
- Farid KehdyLouisville$81K
- Timothy DawsonLouisville$63K
- Gary VitaleLouisville$63K
- John OlsofkaLouisville$59K
- Keith MillerLouisville$38K
- Gerald CheadleLouisville$22K
- George MarshallLouisville$19K
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.