Has Katie Francis, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,616 in general payments to Katie Francis, MD across 29 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Katie Francis, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Katie Francis, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Katie Francis, MD

Surgical Critical Care · Akron, OHNPI 1124446919

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,013 of the $1,616 with a category attached, or 62.7%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 53.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $857 and has fallen 80.4% since, to $168 in 2025.

$1,616in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $55.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$857
Teleflex LLC$149
Kls-martin L.p.$134
Johnson & Johnson$130
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$69
Kerecis Limited$56
plus $220 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$60337%
Food & beverage$1,01363%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
AbbVie	5	$857
Teleflex LLC	2	$149
Kls-martin L.p.	2	$134
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	5	$130
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	2	$69
Kerecis Limited	2	$56
Atricure, Inc.	2	$53
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$43
Merck	1	$32
Smith+Nephew	2	$28
Werfen USA LLC	1	$22
Solventum Corporation	1	$15
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$14
Medline Industries LP	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.

How this compares

$1,616 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 79 surgical critical care providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$37,875

Medicare patients

157

Services billed

344

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.

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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.

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