Amber Taylor, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (41.3%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 79.3% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $13,062 and has fallen 98.4% since, to $210 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in ID 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.
Across 110 payments — averaging $184.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$16K
- AbbVie$1K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- Endogastric Solutions, Inc$950
- Atricure, Inc.$330
- Bolton Medical Inc$158
- plus $597 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8,39341%
- Food & beverage$4,92924%
- Education$7,00034%
- Gifts$150%
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 | 72 | $16,136 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $1,100 |
| Davol Inc. | 10 | $1,065 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 3 | $950 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $330 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 4 | $158 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $134 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $127 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $126 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $88 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $68 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $32 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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$14,316
- ESOPHYX$897
- PHASIX$873
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$873
- ETHICON$114
- EVARREST$114
- VISTASEAL$114
- MONOCRYL$114
- STRATAFIX$114
- TISSEEL$101
How this compares
$20,336 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 136 surgery providers in Idaho.
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 Nampa
- Richard BallantyneNampa$33K
- Katherine HomerNampa$14K
- Michael NizziNampa$10K
- Forrest FredlineNampa$7K
- Brian CoatesBoise$159K
- Andrew McRobertsPocatello$67K
- John PenningsPost Falls$47K
- Reese VernerMeridian$47K
- Tait OlavesonIdaho Falls$42K
- Rhiana MenenBoise$39K
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.