Gregory Eason, MD
Trauma Surgery · North Kansas City, MONPI 1689673675
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Intuitive Surgical accounts for 87.7% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $952 and has fallen 88.1% since, to $113 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for trauma surgery clinicians in MO, where the typical reported total is $2,857.
Across 26 payments — averaging $44.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Ambu Inc.$30
- Teleflex LLC$23
- Medtronic$17
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$16
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$16
- plus $42 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$63254%
- Food & beverage$53746%
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 | 18 | $1,025 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Hospira, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,169 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 30 trauma surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 96 | $472 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $19 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other trauma surgery in North Kansas City
- Thomas ReardonNorth Kansas City$12K
- Jon GenglerNorth Kansas City$7K
- Jeffrey SimpsonNorth Kansas City$275
- Obeid IlahiSaint Louis$14K
- Kulsoom GunnSaint Louis$13K
- Mark NicolasSpringfield$13K
- Katherine FoersterSpringfield$12K
- Lisa ToelleKansas City$9K
- Joshua McElderrySpringfield$8K
- Pascal NyachoweKansas City$7K
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.