Kenneth Barron, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Charlottesville, VANPI 1972660959
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (55.4%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 94.7% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,736, more than ten times the $87 reported in 2019. Among obstetrics & gynecology clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 30 payments — averaging $240.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Gynesonics, Inc.$81
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$65
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$58
- Pfizer$57
- AbbVie$28
- plus $95 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,80939%
- Food & beverage$4076%
- Education$4,00055%
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 | 15 | $6,834 |
| Gynesonics, Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $65 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $57 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $28 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $23 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $15 |
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$2,752
How this compares
$7,216 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 992 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 14 | $550 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Charlottesville
- Joann PinkertonCharlottesville$35K
- Thomas KimbleNorfolk$286K
- Jack AyoubLeesburg$279K
- Kurian ThottStafford$216K
- Nina SmithHarrisonburg$199K
- Joseph TroiseSalem$144K
- Bunan AlnaifChesapeake$139K
- James JonesRichmond$134K
- Melissa DelgadoVienna$95K
- Kristin SchraaMechanicsville$35K
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.