Harish Nirujogi, MD
Surgery · Florence, KYNPI 1134350721
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 33 payments — averaging $101.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baxter Healthcare$1K
- Intuitive Surgical$829
- Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$450
- Johnson & Johnson$177
- Lexington Medical, Inc.$115
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$65
- plus $231 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,93058%
- Food & beverage$1,39942%
- Gifts$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $1,480 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $829 |
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 1 | $450 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $177 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $31 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $27 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $20 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $19 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
| TELA Bio, 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.
How this compares
$3,346 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 377 surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron Hcl | 73 | $538 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 53 | $238 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Florence
- Joseph KimLexington$1.6M
- John RothLexington$1.6M
- Eric SmithAshland$1.1M
- John OldhamLouisville$515K
- George MundayDanville$271K
- Amber KoonHenderson$210K
- George BushBowling Green$120K
- Frank MillerLouisville$119K
- David VictorMorehead$113K
- Jared DavisLouisville$89K
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.