Kathryn Schwalbe, DO
Surgery · Faribault, MNNPI 1780189407
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (47.0%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 86.7% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,731 and has fallen 98.7% since, to $98 in 2025.
Across 51 payments — averaging $166.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Innovation Technologies Inc$140
- Molli Surgical (US) Inc$139
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$128
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$122
- Davol Inc.$121
- plus $482 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,70832%
- Food & beverage$1,78521%
- Education$4,00047%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 23 | $7,372 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $140 |
| Molli Surgical (US) Inc | 2 | $139 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $128 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $122 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $121 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $61 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| BD | 1 | $32 |
| Vertex | 2 | $32 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $27 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Stryker | 1 | $14 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $10 |
| KUB Technologies Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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$3,093
- Irrisept$140
- EXPAREL$122
How this compares
$8,502 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 498 surgery providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 24 | $1,673 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 23 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Faribault
- Maxfield RichardsonFaribault$29K
- Jayson DockShakopee$266K
- Charles SvendsenMinneapolis$266K
- Michael MegalyMinneapolis$168K
- Andrew SurmakSaint Louis Park$167K
- William NorthrupWhite Bear Lake$160K
- Jolene SinghSt Cloud$150K
- Mark SneiderSaint Paul$120K
- Todd KelloggRochester$110K
- Sean ClearyRochester$107K
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.