Christina Seo, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Englewood, NJNPI 1730384686
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (51.2%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 59.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,227 and has fallen 90.6% since, to $303 in 2025.
Across 31 payments — averaging $161.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Covidien LP$600
- Sirtex Medical Inc$145
- Guard Medical Inc.$144
- Johnson & Johnson$144
- Olympus America Inc.$137
- plus $878 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$60012%
- Travel & lodging$2,56351%
- Food & beverage$1,83137%
- Gifts$160%
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 | 9 | $2,961 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $600 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 1 | $145 |
| Guard Medical Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $144 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Amgen | 1 | $131 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $120 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $115 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Abbott | 1 | $100 |
| Merck | 4 | $56 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| THD America, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $28 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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$2,821
- LigaSure$600
- SIR-Spheres Microspheres$145
- NPseal$144
- Olympus EMR & ESD Devices$137
- KRYSTEXXA$131
- XARELTO$125
- CellerateRx$125
- EXPAREL$120
- XIFAXAN$115
- AJOVY$107
- Supera peripheral stent system$100
How this compares
$5,010 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 86 colon & rectal surgery providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine | 11 | $113 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 20 | $86 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Englewood
- Hima GhantaEnglewood$5K
- Steven Lee-KongHackensack$55K
- Ashlee Godshalk RugglesPennington$44K
- John BerryPennington$36K
- Thomas LakeOakhurst$15K
- Glenn ParkerOakhurst$14K
- Daniel FeingoldNew Brunswick$14K
- Kulvir NandraGlen Ridge$12K
- Michele MalitHolmdel$11K
- Brendan ScullyNew Brunswick$11K
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.