Eugene Kim
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1770570293
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (55.0%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.4% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $43,300 and has fallen 86.5% since, to $5,848 in 2025. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 240 payments — averaging $787.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$188K
- Medtronic$507
- Covidien LP$236
- Bolton Medical Inc$149
- Keystone Dental Inc.$54
- Davol Inc.$51
- plus $210 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$64,80034%
- Travel & lodging$10,6716%
- Food & beverage$9,3705%
- Education$103,91455%
- Gifts$1980%
- Entertainment$540%
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 | 217 | $187,801 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $507 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $236 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $149 |
| Keystone Dental Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $36 |
| Merck | 2 | $33 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $22 |
| AstraZeneca | 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$176,474
- DA VINCI SP$9,200
- Signia$473
- LigaSure$170
- Relay Grafts$149
How this compares
$189,006 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 50 colon & rectal surgery providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metronidazole | 52 | $138 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 48 | $117 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Phoenix
- Ashley CasanoPhoenix$48K
- Debora Fox-McclaryPhoenix$41K
- Nasrin GhalyaiePhoenix$22K
- Jonathan DameworthPhoenix$8K
- Jason WeissPhoenix$7K
- Nimesh NaikPhoenix$6K
- Julie DrickenPhoenix$4K
- Aisha AkhtarPhoenix$3K
- Stephen BrownPhoenix$3K
- Tonia Young-FadokPhoenix$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.