Catherine Russo, PA
Surgical · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1144006834
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $720 of the $1,101 with a category attached, or 65.3%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 50.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,016, more than ten times the $31 reported in 2023.
Across 29 payments — averaging $37.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$553
- Valencia Technologies Corporation$147
- AbbVie$122
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$75
- Accord Healthcare, Inc.$51
- AstraZeneca$35
- plus $118 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$31128%
- Food & beverage$72065%
- Education$716%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 9 | $553 |
| Valencia Technologies Corporation | 3 | $147 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $122 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $75 |
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $35 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Bayer | 1 | $29 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- INTERSTIM$239
How this compares
$1,101 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 121 surgical providers in Utah.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 35 | $18,707 |
| GemtesaVibegron | 11 | $6,347 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 56 | $5,709 |
| Estradiol | 38 | $2,374 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 105 | $953 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 38 | $377 |
| Finasteride | 23 | $340 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 27 | $327 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 61 | $326 |
| Cephalexin | 20 | $323 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 13 | $253 |
| Fluconazole | 26 | $198 |
| Cefdinir | 13 | $152 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 19 | $136 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $75 | $6,34711 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 121 surgical providers in Utah.
Other surgical in Salt Lake City
- Scott HadfieldSalt Lake City$10K
- Brittany CrossSalt Lake City$6K
- Brittney TaylorSalt Lake City$4K
- Meagan ThomasSalt Lake City$3K
- Jessica WoeppelSalt Lake City$2K
- Danielle ChristensenSalt Lake City$2K
- Jennifer StrumoloSalt Lake City$2K
- Heather GeorgeSalt Lake City$2K
- Cristina BerkholderSalt Lake City$1K
- Meghan CalamelSalt Lake City$1K
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.