John Kelly, MD
Surgery · Worcester, MANPI 1356325062
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (55.9%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 79.2% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,436 and has fallen 86.4% since, to $1,144 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in MA 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 68 payments — averaging $289.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$16K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$890
- Applied Medical Resources Corporation$375
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$283
- Johnson & Johnson$123
- plus $100 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,62513%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5003%
- Travel & lodging$3,16816%
- Food & beverage$2,35812%
- Education$11,00056%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 47 | $15,580 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $2,313 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $890 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 1 | $375 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 5 | $283 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $123 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $52 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $48 |
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$10,645
- DAVINCI XI$4,000
- Zynrelef$2,250
- ENDO CLIP III$500
- Signia$110
How this compares
$19,664 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 694 surgery providers in Massachusetts.
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.
Other surgery in Worcester
- Donald CzerniachWorcester$50K
- Nicole CherngWorcester$37K
- Richard PeruginiWorcester$21K
- Michael TarnoffBoston$1.4M
- Omar KudsiBoston$886K
- Philip CohenBrockton$280K
- Ankit MehtaBoston$278K
- Mark ConradMethuen$187K
- James HermenegildoFall River$178K
- Richard EngelmanSpringfield$167K
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.