Barath Krishnan, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $9,499 of the $14,605 with a category attached, or 65.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 94.7% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $5,047 and has fallen 86.9% since, to $660 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in DE 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 119 payments — averaging $122.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$14K
- Baxter Healthcare$116
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$101
- Mozarc Medical US LLC$100
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$66
- Smith+Nephew$50
- plus $337 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,55117%
- Food & beverage$2,54017%
- Education$9,49965%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 87 | $13,836 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $116 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $101 |
| Mozarc Medical US LLC | 3 | $100 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $50 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $48 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $22 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $16 |
| Stryker | 1 | $16 |
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$11,417
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
How this compares
$14,605 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 89 surgery providers in Delaware.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 16 | $19 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $6 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Dover
- Lydell LettsomeDover$32K
- Mridul PansariDover$6K
- Thomas BarnettDover$5K
- Theodoros KatsichtisDover$5K
- John MitchellDover$4K
- Rahul SinghDover$3K
- Amber JacobsonDover$2K
- Brandt FeuersteinDover$1K
- Radu NedelcoviciuDover$1K
- Nasrin AnsariDover$885
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.