Drew Farmer, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Ft Worth, TXNPI 1124448972
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (59.8%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 76.8% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,317 and has fallen 94.1% since, to $316 in 2025.
Across 43 payments — averaging $159.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Zimmer Biomet$787
- Kls-martin L.p.$201
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$175
- Kerecis Limited$155
- AbbVie$68
- plus $204 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,73825%
- Food & beverage$1,02615%
- Education$4,10560%
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 | $5,278 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $787 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 5 | $201 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $175 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $155 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $68 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $26 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $23 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Solventum Corporation | 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.
How this compares
$6,868 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 104 surgical critical care providers in Texas.
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 Ft Worth
- Samir AwadHouston$1.6M
- Sharmilla DissanaikeLubbock$844K
- Robert SouthardHouston$215K
- Rondel AlbaradoHouston$197K
- Anthony CahillWaco$43K
- Michael CorneilleSan Antonio$35K
- Christopher CouchTyler$30K
- Ryan KostkaFort Worth$30K
- Daniel BonvilleHouston$28K
- Caesar RicciFort Worth$27K
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.