Barbara Nguyen
Surgery · Kansas City, MONPI 1700204559
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,572 of the $3,910 with a category attached, or 65.8%. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. accounts for 63.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,373 and has fallen 95.3% since, to $111 in 2024.
Across 39 payments — averaging $100.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$362
- Johnson & Johnson$306
- Davol Inc.$287
- Medtronic$182
- AbbVie$100
- plus $210 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,33834%
- Food & beverage$2,57266%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 15 | $2,463 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 8 | $362 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $306 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $287 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $182 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $100 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $97 |
| Stryker | 1 | $85 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
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
$3,910 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 612 surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 16 | $1,287 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 77 | $612 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Kansas City
- Bradley MooreKansas City$110K
- George SorensenKansas City$80K
- Mohsin SolimanKansas City$46K
- David ShanbergKansas City$24K
- Heather KlepaczKansas City$17K
- James ScottSaint Louis$307K
- Omar GuerraSaint Louis$249K
- John TannColumbia$216K
- Mark DrakeSaint Louis$212K
- Adeel KhanSaint Louis$204K
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.