Kate Vasconcellos, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Milwaukee, WINPI 1437477320
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (48.3%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 90.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 33 payments — averaging $94.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Baxter Healthcare$111
- Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$51
- Conmed Corporation$33
- Acell, Inc.$18
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$15
- plus $53 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$58919%
- Food & beverage$1,49848%
- Education$1,00032%
- Gifts$161%
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 | 21 | $2,823 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $111 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $51 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Seagen Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,352
How this compares
$3,104 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 27 colon & rectal surgery providers in Wisconsin.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neomycin Sulfate | 36 | $205 |
| Metronidazole | 39 | $78 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 27 | $66 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $18 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Milwaukee
- Jasna CoralicMilwaukee$48K
- Amy Hanna SalamiMilwaukee$22K
- Timothy RidolfiMilwaukee$9K
- Jed CalataMilwaukee$7K
- Katherine HuMilwaukee$6K
- Molly MeyersMilwaukee$4K
- James KlasMilwaukee$1K
- Carrie PetersonMilwaukee$862
- Rudolph KluiberMilwaukee$38
- Elise LawsonMadison$11K
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.