Bogdan Protyniak, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Wilkes-Barre, PANPI 1154632388
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $346,852 of the $428,554 with a category attached, or 80.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.1% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in PA 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 461 payments — averaging $929.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$425K
- Medtronic$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$744
- Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical)$500
- Axonics, Inc.$329
- Davol Inc.$324
- plus $600 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6360%
- Speaking & faculty fees$41,69510%
- Travel & lodging$18,7354%
- Food & beverage$20,5815%
- Education$346,85281%
- Gifts$550%
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 | 417 | $424,876 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $1,181 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $744 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $500 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 3 | $329 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $324 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $235 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $193 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $55 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $47 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $29 |
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$410,356
- DA VINCI SP$11,150
- INTERSTIM$752
- Signia$166
- Axonics$148
- Enseal X1$121
- EVARREST$121
- MONOCRYL$121
- Enseal$117
- Echelon Flex$117
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$117
- Axonics r-SNM System$105
- PICO Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy$101
- Oasis$101
How this compares
$428,554 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 108 colon & rectal surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neomycin Sulfate | 28 | $125 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 25 | $93 |
| Metronidazole | 31 | $67 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 26 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Wilkes-Barre
- John MarksWynnewood$155K
- Joshua BleierPhiladelphia$86K
- Richard FortunatoPittsburgh$80K
- Najjia MahmoudPhiladelphia$63K
- James McCormickMonroeville$55K
- Juan PoggioPhiladelphia$49K
- Christopher BuzasDanville$25K
- David ZebleyAbington$24K
- Jennifer Holder-MurrayPittsburgh$21K
- Christopher BruceDoylestown$17K
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.