Joe Cates, MD
Surgery · Overland Park, KSNPI 1316942972
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $12,135 of the $14,962 with a category attached, or 81.1%. 47 manufacturers reported payments, led by Endologix LLC at 37.1% of the total. Among surgery clinicians in KS 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 200 payments — averaging $74.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endologix LLC$6K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Histosonics, Inc.$1K
- Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc.$580
- Intuitive Surgical$434
- plus $3K from 41 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,82719%
- Food & beverage$12,13581%
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.
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.
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$2,270
- Ovation$1,226
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$1,214
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,156
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$732
- ENDOCROSS Device$698
- Torus Stent Graft System$698
- Ovation iX Iliac Stent Graft$610
- RELIZORB$541
- Da Vinci Surgical System$378
- Heli-FX EndoAnchor System$243
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$196
- ENDURANT IIS$189
- ALIYA SYSTEM$147
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$147
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$146
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$146
- (6554) Periph Vasc Undiv$125
- FOUNDATIONONE CDX$124
- FOUNDATIONONE$124
How this compares
$14,962 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 271 surgery providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 195 | $2,212 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 30 | $1,265 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 29 | $450 |
| Methylprednisolone | 21 | $87 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Overland Park
- Christopher CummingsOverland Park$70K
- Maria GoddardOverland Park$31K
- Victor CostaOverland Park$11K
- Jeffrey CameronOverland Park$10K
- Nicholas WelleOverland Park$7K
- Jeremy HowesWichita$111K
- Christopher MorrisseyWinfield$87K
- Stanley HoehnLenexa$60K
- Robert AragonLenexa$56K
- Kimberly PonnuruMerriam$36K
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.