Betsy Krebs, DO
Surgery · Bridgeton, MONPI 1619231636
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $48,500 of the $58,767 with a category attached, or 82.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.4% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $34,618, 4.4 times the $7,953 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in MO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 134 payments — averaging $438.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$57K
- Smith+Nephew$449
- Johnson & Johnson$150
- Baxter Healthcare$104
- AbbVie$98
- Endomagnetics Ltd$96
- plus $625 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5003%
- Travel & lodging$3,0725%
- Food & beverage$5,65210%
- Education$48,50083%
- Gifts$430%
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 | 73 | $57,244 |
| Smith+Nephew | 31 | $449 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $150 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $104 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $98 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 2 | $96 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $90 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $77 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 2 | $76 |
| Leica Microsystems Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $40 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $39 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $35 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $31 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Tactile Systems Technology 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$54,819
- DAVINCI XI$1,500
- Non-Franchise (NOF) - NonProduct$104
How this compares
$58,767 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 59 | $352 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Bridgeton
- Mario MoralesBridgeton$25K
- Andrea SchwoererBridgeton$22K
- James ScottSaint Louis$307K
- Omar GuerraSaint Louis$249K
- John TannColumbia$216K
- Mark DrakeSaint Louis$212K
- Adeel KhanSaint Louis$204K
- Michael AwadSaint Louis$176K
- Patricia HodginsFenton$145K
- Laurie PunchSaint Louis$141K
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.