Hannah Palin, MD
Gynecology · Norfolk, VANPI 1235661059
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,307 of the $1,880 with a category attached, or 69.5%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 50.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $941 and has fallen 82.7% since, to $163 in 2025.
Across 16 payments — averaging $117.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$941
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$243
- KARL Storz Endoscopy-america$163
- Gynesonics, Inc.$160
- Davol Inc.$138
- Northgate Technologies, Inc.$118
- plus $117 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$56430%
- Food & beverage$1,30770%
- Gifts$90%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 7 | $941 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $243 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 2 | $163 |
| Gynesonics, Inc. | 1 | $160 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Northgate Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Meditrina | 1 | $87 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $30 |
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$825
- ACESSA PROVU SYSTEM$243
- SONATA SONOGRAPHY-GUIDED TRANSCERVICAL FIBROID ABLATION SYSTEM$160
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$138
- NTI Branded Other (NTI)$118
How this compares
$1,880 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 71 gynecology providers in Virginia.
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 gynecology in Norfolk
- Stephanie SingletonNorfolk$528
- Keith BerkleMechanicsville$170K
- Mariel FocseneanuNewport News$34K
- Laura HomewoodCharlottesville$27K
- Lisa WestMidlothian$20K
- Sima BinaReston$9K
- Elizabeth BrunnArlington$6K
- Stacy LahtiDanville$4K
- Jennifer ShoemakerMidlothian$4K
- Sarah WoodsLynchburg$3K
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.