James Conner, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1972766970
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.3% of the total across 58 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 41.1% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for colon & rectal surgery clinicians in IN, where the typical reported total is $1,741.
Across 58 payments — averaging $25.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$614
- Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$127
- Exact Sciences$126
- Johnson & Johnson$109
- AbbVie$85
- Medtronic$47
- plus $385 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,45497%
- Education$403%
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 | 17 | $614 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 8 | $127 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $126 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $109 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $85 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $47 |
| Merck | 2 | $45 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $43 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $26 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $25 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $13 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $6 |
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
$1,493 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 54 colon & rectal surgery providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 21 | $1,520 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $102 |
| Metronidazole | 17 | $64 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 11 | $62 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Fort Wayne
- Joshua WalletFort Wayne$14K
- Kelly KlinkerFort Wayne$12K
- Ga-Ram HanFort Wayne$9K
- Mithun ShenoiFort Wayne$5K
- Hisham ElhassanFort Wayne$5K
- James EdlundFort Wayne$4K
- Paul ConartyFort Wayne$4K
- Virendra ParikhFort Wayne$3K
- Glenn GoldsteinFort Wayne$3K
- Nadine FloydFort Wayne$1K
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.