Katherine Hu, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Milwaukee, WINPI 1578959771
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (42.2%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 50.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,627 and has fallen 91.5% since, to $308 in 2025.
Across 65 payments — averaging $95.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Medtronic$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$258
- Kerecis Limited$246
- Davol Inc.$196
- Embecta Corp.$179
- plus $864 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,61742%
- Food & beverage$2,58042%
- Education$1,00016%
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 | 17 | $3,142 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $1,313 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $258 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $246 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $196 |
| Embecta Corp. | 14 | $179 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $143 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $127 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 1 | $101 |
| Abbott | 4 | $95 |
| BD | 2 | $28 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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$1,942
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- INTERSTIM$796
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$738
- INTEGRA$385
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$246
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$246
- AQUAMANTYS$147
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$146
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$137
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$128
- PRIMATRIX$128
- PREVENA$127
- V.A.C. ULTA$127
- GI Genius$119
- REBYOTA$106
- PuraPly$106
- EVIS EXERA lll COLONOVIDEOSCOPE$101
How this compares
$6,197 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine | 12 | $331 |
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
- Molly MeyersMilwaukee$4K
- Kate VasconcellosMilwaukee$3K
- 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.