Has John Kutz, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $801 in general payments to John Kutz, MD across 16 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Kutz, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Kutz, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Kutz, MD

Vascular Surgery · Scranton, PANPI 1174594683

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 16 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 30.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $266 and has fallen 68.0% since, to $85 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $3,795.

$801in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $50.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$241
Kerecis Limited$220
Getinge USA Sales, LLC$112
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$85
Organogenesis Inc.$44
Pfizer$40
plus $59 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$801100%

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Boston Scientific	5	$241
Kerecis Limited	2	$220
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	2	$112
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$85
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$44
Pfizer	2	$40
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$37
Johnson & Johnson	1	$22

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

$801 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 236 vascular surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$132,741

Medicare patients

1,142

Services billed

2,189

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
Cilostazol	41	$980

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other vascular surgery in Scranton

Darren SchneiderPhiladelphia$569K
Elizabeth GenovesePhiladelphia$343K
Shang LohPhiladelphia$306K
Paul FoleyDoylestown$241K
Michel MakarounPittsburgh$143K
Robert MeisnerLebanon$128K
Vincent DigiovanniMedia$127K
Efthymios AvgerinosPittsburgh$120K
Meghan DermodyLancaster$103K
Carleen ChoErie$85K

See the full list for Pennsylvania →

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.

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