John Jeffries
Surgery · Hartford, KYNPI 1891037008
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,691 of the $9,939 with a category attached, or 77.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 96.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,830, more than ten times the $143 reported in 2019.
Across 29 payments — averaging $342.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- Elucent Medical$248
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$40
- Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.$17
- AbbVie$15
- TELA Bio, Inc.$13
- plus $13 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,22412%
- Food & beverage$1,02410%
- Education$7,69177%
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 | 21 | $9,592 |
| Elucent Medical | 2 | $248 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $40 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
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$7,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,269
How this compares
$9,939 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 377 surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron Hcl | 16 | $139 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 29 | $94 |
| Methocarbamol | 18 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Hartford
- Eric SmithAshland$1.1M
- John RothLexington$820K
- John OldhamLouisville$515K
- George MundayDanville$271K
- Amber KoonHenderson$210K
- Frank MillerLouisville$119K
- Jared DavisLouisville$89K
- Aaron HouseCorbin$79K
- James WatkinsCampbellsville$70K
- Katrina KolasaDanville$66K
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.