Kaci Sims, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $13,000 of the $14,894 with a category attached, or 87.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 98.2% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,555 and has fallen 67.1% since, to $1,500 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in AL 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 29 payments — averaging $513.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$51
- Johnson & Johnson$48
- Medtronic$39
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$32
- Baxter Healthcare$29
- plus $74 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$140%
- Travel & lodging$1,4089%
- Food & beverage$4733%
- Education$13,00087%
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 | 16 | $14,620 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $48 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $39 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $29 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $24 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $14 |
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$10,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,389
How this compares
$14,894 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 382 surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 58 | $3,731 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 46 | $976 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 27 | $198 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 53 | $127 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 12 | $72 |
| Metronidazole | 14 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Foley
- Eric RobertsFoley$39K
- Jeffrey CaylorFoley$37K
- Patrick BosargeFoley$28K
- John PorterfieldBessemer$972K
- Barton WoodAlabaster$702K
- Forrest RingoldMobile$678K
- Dennis FernandezHuntsville$266K
- Cameron AskewBirmingham$236K
- Terry TreadwellMontgomery$127K
- Charles NewmanGadsden$123K
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.