Brent Forrest, MD
Surgery · Lenexa, KSNPI 1487092797
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (49.7%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 85.1% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,209 and has fallen 80.7% since, to $1,393 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in KS 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 79 payments — averaging $171.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$333
- Johnson & Johnson$268
- Boston Scientific$160
- Teleflex LLC$97
- plus $113 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,85228%
- Food & beverage$2,97522%
- Education$6,73350%
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 | 56 | $11,542 |
| Davol Inc. | 8 | $1,048 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $333 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $268 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $160 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $97 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Convatec Inc. | 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$6,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,616
- Phasix Mesh$668
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$289
- RIBFIX BLU ADVANTAGE$140
- Apollo 2-0 Polypropylene Endobariatric Suture$132
- RibFix Blu$101
- RibFix Advantage$101
How this compares
$13,560 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 271 surgery providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 18 | $628 |
| Sucralfate | 17 | $429 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 34 | $318 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 36 | $75 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 19 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Lenexa
- Stanley HoehnLenexa$60K
- Robert AragonLenexa$56K
- Gerald HamiltonLenexa$14K
- Jeremy HowesWichita$111K
- Christopher MorrisseyWinfield$87K
- Christopher CummingsOverland Park$70K
- Kimberly PonnuruMerriam$36K
- Bradon BitterWichita$33K
- Maria GoddardOverland Park$31K
- Nicholas BrownWichita$29K
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.