Debbie Bakes, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1134415060
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $10,000 of the $15,253 with a category attached, or 65.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 85.8% of it on its own, with 27 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $9,118 and has fallen 88.9% since, to $1,010 in 2025.
Across 100 payments — averaging $152.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$13K
- Johnson & Johnson$336
- Merck$165
- Bayer$146
- Pfizer$145
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$143
- plus $1K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,96713%
- Food & beverage$3,28522%
- Education$10,00066%
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 | 31 | $13,094 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $336 |
| Merck | 11 | $165 |
| Bayer | 2 | $146 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $145 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $143 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 5 | $131 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $125 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $115 |
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $113 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $105 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $103 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 4 | $80 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $75 |
| Abbott | 2 | $48 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Amgen | 2 | $39 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $32 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| GSK | 1 | $19 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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$12,383
- COLOGUARD$125
- ELIQUIS$125
- Kerendia$115
- UBRELVY$105
- NURTEC ODT$103
How this compares
$15,253 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 177 colon & rectal surgery providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocortisone | 34 | $506 |
| Metronidazole | 12 | $30 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in New York
- Sanghyun KimNew York$154K
- Mehraneh JafariNew York$50K
- Jeffrey MilsomNew York$42K
- David SchwartzbergNew York$26K
- Richard WhelanNew York$23K
- Alessandro FicheraNew York$20K
- Juliet RayNew York$17K
- Cary AaronsNew York$16K
- Parul ShuklaNew York$14K
- Andre MoreiraNew York$9K
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.