Irina Bernescu, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1174850952
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $71,750 of the $92,634 with a category attached, or 77.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 96.7% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $25,434 and has fallen 59.1% since, to $10,410 in 2025. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in MD 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 155 payments — averaging $597.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$90K
- Applied Medical Resources Corporation$744
- Johnson & Johnson$601
- Axonics, Inc.$326
- Davol Inc.$293
- Stryker$256
- plus $827 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5001%
- Travel & lodging$11,86513%
- Food & beverage$8,5199%
- Education$71,75077%
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 | 126 | $89,587 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 1 | $744 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $601 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 2 | $326 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $293 |
| Stryker | 2 | $256 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $143 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $117 |
| THD America, Inc. | 3 | $106 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $105 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $77 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $35 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $28 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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$83,381
- DA VINCI SP$4,000
- DAVINCI XI$750
- GELPORT$744
- GELPOINT PATH$744
- Enseal X1$412
- Axonics$326
- STRATAFIX$287
- Echelon Circular$287
- 1788$150
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$150
- PROGEL$143
- INTERSTIM$117
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$106
- Endo GIA$105
How this compares
$92,634 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 29 colon & rectal surgery providers in Maryland.
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 | 20 | $90 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 14 | $72 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Baltimore
- Bashar SafarBaltimore$26K
- Joshua WolfBaltimore$24K
- Philip FerrisBaltimore$11K
- Chady AtallahBaltimore$4K
- Wei LiuBaltimore$2K
- Evan BuckinghamBaltimore$2K
- David LisleBaltimore$1K
- Joann WarrickBaltimore$437
- Kathryn ChuBaltimore$41
- Ivane ChuaTowson$10K
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.