Caroline Neff, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Pikeville, KYNPI 1215342985
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 92.0% of the total across 39 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Davol Inc. accounts for 64.2% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,351 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $17 in 2025.
Across 39 payments — averaging $72.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Davol Inc.$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$425
- Boston Scientific$140
- Solventum Corporation$106
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$98
- TELA Bio, Inc.$84
- plus $159 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2087%
- Food & beverage$2,60492%
- Education$201%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Davol Inc. | 20 | $1,819 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $425 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $140 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $106 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $98 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $84 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $66 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $28 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $28 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Teleflex LLC | 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.
- Phasix Mesh$708
- XenMatrix Surgical Graft$505
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$227
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$184
- XenMatrix AB Surgical Graft$136
- SPYGLASS$112
How this compares
$2,831 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 31 surgical critical care providers in Kentucky.
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 surgical critical care in Pikeville
- Henrik BerdelPikeville$3K
- Anthony BottiggiPikeville$416
- Aaron BrownPikeville$336
- Amanda HanggePikeville$137
- Matthew BennsLouisville$10K
- Timothy MullettLexington$5K
- Brian ClarkeEdgewood$5K
- William WeberLexington$4K
- Jonathan VacekLouisville$4K
- Matthew BozemanLouisville$4K
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.