Karolin Ginting, MD
Surgery · Pottsville, PANPI 1093200834
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (52.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 93.6% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $5,794 and has fallen 73.3% since, to $1,545 in 2025.
Across 48 payments — averaging $158.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Smith+Nephew$232
- Organogenesis Inc.$108
- Medtronic$81
- Urgo Medical North America, LLC$20
- Hartmann USA, Inc.$18
- plus $30 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,05827%
- Food & beverage$1,53420%
- Education$4,00053%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 25 | $7,118 |
| Smith+Nephew | 14 | $232 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $108 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $81 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $15 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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$4,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,934
How this compares
$7,607 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,424 surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 18 | $267 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 29 | $121 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Pottsville
- Andy KiserPittsburgh$1M
- Glenn SteeleDanville$698K
- Maher El ChaarAllentown$667K
- George EidPittsburgh$619K
- Paul CesanekAllentown$469K
- Clark GerhartPlains$317K
- Irina YermilovPlymouth Meeting$315K
- Eric PauliHershey$202K
- Ariel AballayPittsburgh$198K
- Ann RogersHershey$198K
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.