Elizabeth Paulus, MD
Surgical Oncology · Saginaw, MINPI 1962632349
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,356 of the $3,794 with a category attached, or 62.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 89.1% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,156 and has fallen 98.2% since, to $56 in 2025.
Across 44 payments — averaging $86.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$221
- Healthmyne, Inc.$54
- Davol Inc.$29
- Incyte Corporation$23
- Smith+Nephew$20
- plus $67 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,35662%
- Food & beverage$1,24433%
- Gifts$1945%
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 | 33 | $3,380 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $221 |
| Healthmyne, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $20 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Taiho Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| Coherus Oncology, 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$2,802
- Nanoknife$115
How this compares
$3,794 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 28 surgical oncology providers in Michigan.
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 oncology in Saginaw
- Joseph ContinoSaginaw$92
- Gitonga MuneneKalamazoo$82K
- Douglas IddingsFlint$7K
- John BarnwellDetroit$7K
- Tong QuEast Lansing$7K
- Rupen ShahDetroit$4K
- Srinivas KavuturuEast Lansing$4K
- Sukamal SahaFlint$3K
- Mathew ChungGrand Rapids$2K
- Lindsay PetersenDetroit$2K
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.