Jeffrey Scow, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Hershey, PANPI 1255451423
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (30.1%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 69.4% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $270 and has fallen 94.4% since, to $15 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for colon & rectal surgery clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $2,089.
Across 11 payments — averaging $70.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$534
- Actuated Medical, Inc.$200
- Johnson & Johnson$21
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$15
Across 96 payments — averaging $3012.52 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$289K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20026%
- Travel & lodging$22830%
- Food & beverage$23230%
- Education$11014%
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 | 8 | $534 |
| Actuated Medical, Inc. | 1 | $200 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$770 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 108 colon & rectal surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 | 40 | $79 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 18 | $56 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 20 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Hershey
- Walter KoltunHershey$3K
- Audrey KulaylatHershey$2K
- Patricio LynnHershey$2K
- Bogdan ProtyniakWilkes-Barre$429K
- John MarksWynnewood$155K
- Joshua BleierPhiladelphia$86K
- Richard FortunatoPittsburgh$80K
- Najjia MahmoudPhiladelphia$63K
- James McCormickMonroeville$55K
- Juan PoggioPhiladelphia$49K
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.