Julie Kim, MD
Surgery · Cambridge, MANPI 1851305049
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $45,119 of the $61,230 with a category attached, or 73.7%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Covidien LP at 50.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $19,363 and has fallen 89.9% since, to $1,962 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in MA 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 109 payments — averaging $561.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Covidien LP$31K
- Medtronic$15K
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$964
- Bolder Surgical, LLC$675
- plus $2K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$45,11974%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,2082%
- Travel & lodging$5,1868%
- Food & beverage$2,7174%
- Education$7,00011%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Covidien LP | 14 | $30,911 |
| Medtronic | 30 | $14,836 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 22 | $11,038 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $1,208 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $964 |
| Bolder Surgical, LLC | 1 | $675 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 1 | $575 |
| Amgen | 9 | $266 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $212 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $182 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $96 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $92 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Concordia Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 1 | $12 |
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$3,784
- NO PRODUCT DISCUSSED$1,208
- Signia$964
- LINX Reflux Management System$843
- CoolSeal Generator$675
- Wegovy$119
- Endo GIA$117
- VAC VERAFLO$105
How this compares
$61,230 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 16 | $160 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Cambridge
- Lisa FerzocoCambridge$49K
- Arundhati GhoshCambridge$22K
- Ketan ShethCambridge$20K
- 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.