Katerina Wells, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1669796322
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (45.9%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 47.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $35,737, 2.9 times the $12,264 reported in 2019. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in TX 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 173 payments — averaging $477.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$39K
- Johnson & Johnson$37K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- AbbVie$672
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$179
- Medtronic$168
- plus $894 from 16 others
Across 68 payments — averaging $1469.54 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$73K
- Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$27K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$37,87546%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,0005%
- Travel & lodging$5,5787%
- Food & beverage$4,2985%
- Education$30,75037%
- Gifts$300%
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 | 52 | $39,267 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 24 | $37,057 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 12 | $4,294 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 39 | $672 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $179 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $168 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $162 |
| THD America, Inc. | 3 | $160 |
| Stryker | 1 | $140 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 11 | $114 |
| Activ Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Merck | 3 | $44 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Organon | 1 | $14 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Bayer | 1 | $12 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 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$38,481
- MONOCRYL$11,363
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$1,834
- Irrisept$147
- PINPOINT$140
- SPY TECHNOLOGY$140
- LigaSure$124
How this compares
$82,531 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 200 colon & rectal 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Lactated RingersRinger's Solution,lactated | 37 | $1,600 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 11 | $75 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $74 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Dallas
- Robert JacobsonDallas$125K
- Anand LodhaDallas$40K
- Roberto Rodriguez-RuesgaDallas$38K
- Michael PendolaDallas$21K
- Anthony MacalusoDallas$20K
- Sarah StringfieldDallas$19K
- Zachary RobertsDallas$17K
- Edward FrankoDallas$13K
- Lai XueDallas$13K
- Nathaniel NgDallas$12K
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.