David Vaughn, MD
Surgery · Lancaster, PANPI 1639339542
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (58.6%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 79.4% of it on its own, with 26 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,540 and has fallen 95.7% since, to $240 in 2025.
Across 65 payments — averaging $104.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Davol Inc.$211
- Inari Medical, Inc.$209
- Medtronic$159
- Smith+Nephew$154
- Johnson & Johnson$94
- plus $580 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,00059%
- Food & beverage$1,82127%
- Education$1,00015%
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 | 10 | $5,413 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $211 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $209 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $159 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $154 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $94 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $74 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Vertex | 3 | $55 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $47 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $36 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Mozarc Medical US LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $19 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $15 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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$5,150
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$209
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$209
- Dextile$155
- PROGEL$121
How this compares
$6,821 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,424 surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 53 | $315 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Lancaster
- Andy KiserPittsburgh$1M
- Glenn SteeleDanville$698K
- Maher El ChaarAllentown$667K
- George EidPittsburgh$619K
- Paul CesanekAllentown$469K
- Clark GerhartPlains$317K
- Irina YermilovPlymouth Meeting$315K
- Eric PauliHershey$202K
- Ariel AballayPittsburgh$198K
- Ann RogersHershey$198K
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.