Joseph Mills, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Williamsville, NYNPI 1396027207
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,482 of the $8,796 with a category attached, or 62.3%. It is spread thinly across 32 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.2%. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,871 and has fallen 72.4% since, to $793 in 2025.
Across 95 payments — averaging $92.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- THD America, Inc.$1K
- Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc.$1K
- Stryker$504
- Johnson & Johnson$485
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$393
- plus $3K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,30038%
- Food & beverage$5,48262%
- Gifts$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 9 | $1,868 |
| THD America, Inc. | 8 | $1,177 |
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 3 | $1,053 |
| Stryker | 5 | $504 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $485 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $393 |
| Pentax Of America, Inc. | 7 | $369 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 3 | $355 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 4 | $288 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $272 |
| Coloplast | 9 | $256 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $221 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $217 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $192 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $151 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $147 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $141 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $90 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $85 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $50 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 1 | $30 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $18 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,619
- INTEGRA$788
- Kerecis SurgiClose$769
- FUJIFILM$355
- 1688$287
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$263
- PRIMATRIX$263
- Enseal X1$240
- Axonics r-SNM System$238
- Echelon Circular$236
- VISTASEAL$226
- Echelon Flex$226
- Kerecis GraftGuide$192
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$151
- INSPIRA$138
- RENASYS TOUCH$125
- Enseal$125
- MONOCRYL$125
- The Cologuard Plus Collection Kit$120
- PREVENA$118
How this compares
$8,796 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 177 colon & rectal surgery providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mesalamine | 17 | $3,572 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $81 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Williamsville
- Steven BaroneWilliamsville$6K
- Bashir AttuwaybiWilliamsville$6K
- Mark FalvoWilliamsville$5K
- Timothy AdamsWilliamsville$4K
- David RivadeneiraWoodbury$271K
- Jerald WishnerMount Kisco$246K
- Sanghyun KimNew York$154K
- Ziad KronfolWest Nyack$81K
- Lynn OconnorHuntington$63K
- Mehraneh JafariNew York$50K
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.