Kara Monday, MD
Trauma Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1174815765
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (41.5%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 36 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 36.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,600 and has fallen 54.6% since, to $2,090 in 2025.
Across 104 payments — averaging $114.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Transmedics, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$265
- Abiomed$245
- plus $2K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,48938%
- Food & beverage$4,96042%
- Education$2,50021%
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 | 12 | $4,380 |
| Transmedics, Inc. | 1 | $2,171 |
| Abbott | 20 | $1,984 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $1,369 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $265 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $245 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 3 | $205 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $196 |
| Merck | 8 | $152 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 2 | $80 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $79 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $74 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 3 | $59 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $55 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $50 |
| CSL Behring | 3 | $46 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $45 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $25 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Saranas, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $21 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $14 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $12 |
| Bolder Surgical LLC | 1 | $7 |
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$2,500
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$2,171
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,633
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$1,182
- MC3 NAUTILUS(TM) ECMO OXYGENATOR$813
- LifeSPARC$265
- Impella$146
- Absolute Pro vascular stent system$143
- Bio-Medicus$133
- CentriMag$132
- GIAPREZA$108
How this compares
$11,949 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 108 trauma surgery providers in Texas.
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 trauma surgery in Dallas
- Ryan KennedyDallas$18K
- Jennifer MooneyDallas$9K
- Christopher GuidryDallas$9K
- Matthew LovittDallas$8K
- Laura PetreyDallas$7K
- Sneha BhatDallas$6K
- Geoffrey FunkDallas$5K
- Adora Tricia SantosDallas$5K
- Anthony TannousDallas$4K
- Vanessa ShiffletteDallas$3K
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.