Brian Wittek, MD
Surgery · North Kansas City, MONPI 1881658631
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $6,309 of the $6,664 with a category attached, or 94.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 95.4% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,063 and has fallen 93.8% since, to $191 in 2025.
Across 14 payments — averaging $476.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$120
- Conmed Corporation$63
- Medtronic$48
- Johnson & Johnson$31
- Leica Microsystems Inc.$24
- plus $19 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$371%
- Food & beverage$3185%
- Education$6,30995%
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 | 6 | $6,360 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $120 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $63 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $48 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $31 |
| Leica Microsystems Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $19 |
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$3,309
- DAVINCI XI$3,000
- ESOPHYX$120
How this compares
$6,664 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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 | 85 | $379 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in North Kansas City
- 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
- Jeffrey BlatnikSaint Louis$134K
- Bradley MooreKansas City$110K
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.