John Francis, MD
Surgery · Lafayette, INNPI 1306814496
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $21,404 of the $34,916 with a category attached, or 61.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 66.3% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $17,923 and has fallen 76.5% since, to $4,217 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in IN 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 58 payments — averaging $602.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$23K
- Cook Biotech Incorporated$9K
- Cook Research Incorporated$2K
- Davol Inc.$258
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$101
- Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$43
- plus $203 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,42530%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7502%
- Food & beverage$2,3187%
- Education$21,40461%
- Gifts$190%
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 | 26 | $23,162 |
| Cook Biotech Incorporated | 14 | $9,149 |
| Cook Research Incorporated | 1 | $2,000 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $258 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $101 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $30 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Boston Scientific | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$22,782
- Phasix Mesh$132
- Oasis$122
How this compares
$34,916 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 524 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 12 | $94 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $69 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 13 | $49 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Lafayette
- Paul SzotekIndianapolis$2.4M
- Carlos Gonzalez RendonMunster$275K
- Anthony ZappiaCarmel$105K
- Jeremy Luedtkela Porte$102K
- Patricia ClarkFort Wayne$82K
- Erica GiblinCarmel$70K
- Paul BowldsGreenwood$69K
- Michael MillerIndianapolis$53K
- M ShabeebMunster$48K
- Sandra WischmeyerMichigan City$44K
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.