Brent Emigh, MD
Surgery · Providence, RINPI 1952783813
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $4,500 of the $6,466 with a category attached, or 69.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 91.1% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $5,870 and has fallen 96.6% since, to $201 in 2025.
Across 19 payments — averaging $340.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$153
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$144
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$132
- Covidien LP$76
- Medtronic$57
- plus $17 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,25519%
- Food & beverage$71111%
- Education$4,50070%
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 | 13 | $5,887 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $132 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $76 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $57 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $17 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$4,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,189
- LUTONIX$153
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$144
- RECELL$132
How this compares
$6,466 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 108 surgery providers in Rhode Island.
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 Providence
- Joseph EspatProvidence$159K
- Marcoandrea GiorgiProvidence$63K
- Andrew LuhrsProvidence$51K
- Tristen ChunProvidence$22K
- William CioffiProvidence$18K
- Ponnandai SomasundarProvidence$10K
- Michael ConnollyProvidence$9K
- Erin FullerProvidence$7K
- Thach PhamProvidence$7K
- David EdmonsonProvidence$7K
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.