Jacob Hessey
Surgery · Columbia, SCNPI 1588082176
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (30.1%), consulting fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 40.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,210 and has fallen 55.4% since, to $2,771 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 81 payments — averaging $217.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Zimmer Biomet$6K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$554
- AbbVie$430
- Atricure, Inc.$396
- plus $1K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,46125%
- Travel & lodging$5,29330%
- Food & beverage$3,82722%
- Education$4,00023%
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 | 20 | $7,161 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 17 | $6,167 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 6 | $1,412 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $554 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $430 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $396 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $280 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $140 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $129 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $123 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $123 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $98 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Mesh Suture Inc | 1 | $47 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $45 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 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.
- DAVINCI XI$4,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,733
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$1,384
- INTEGRA$369
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$334
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$290
- ARISTA$280
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$183
- CellerateRx$144
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$140
- TheraGenesis Wound Matrix$140
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$123
- PRIMATRIX$123
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$115
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$115
- RIBFIX TITAN$112
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$111
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$111
- AdvantageRib$108
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$100
How this compares
$17,581 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 553 surgery providers in South Carolina.
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 surgery in Columbia
- Arthur CoolerColumbia$25K
- Kurt FichtnerColumbia$22K
- Christopher WatsonColumbia$21K
- David MoffatColumbia$21K
- Michael FitzgeraldColumbia$16K
- Ratnakishore PallapothuColumbia$14K
- Ari KramerSpartanburg$502K
- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
- John ScottGreenville$242K
- Jason CundiffGreenville$235K
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.