Kenneth Cutshall, MD
Surgery · Johnson City, TNNPI 1700872959
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $178,750 of the $210,159 with a category attached, or 85.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 93.7% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $57,516, 4.8 times the $11,972 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in TN 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 278 payments — averaging $755.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$197K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$9K
- Davol Inc.$2K
- Stryker$644
- Johnson & Johnson$418
- Conmed Corporation$350
- plus $666 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2150%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,1951%
- Travel & lodging$14,5317%
- Food & beverage$15,4697%
- Education$178,75085%
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 | 184 | $196,864 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 49 | $9,156 |
| Davol Inc. | 10 | $2,061 |
| Stryker | 4 | $644 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $418 |
| Conmed Corporation | 6 | $350 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $194 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 1 | $175 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $96 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $75 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $36 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $18 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 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$192,283
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$3,696
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$2,447
- Phasix Mesh$1,884
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- GORE SYNECOR Preperitoneal Biomaterial$946
- DA VINCI SP$750
- GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$599
- 1688$514
- Balloon Sheath with Dilator$242
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$134
- Megadyne$134
- STRATAFIX$134
- PARIETENE DS$114
- AIRSEAL$112
- INFRAVISION IMAGING SYSTEM$100
How this compares
$210,159 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 516 surgery providers in Tennessee.
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 | 13 | $755 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 46 | $119 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 13 | $59 |
| Metronidazole | 14 | $19 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Johnson City
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- Eric WallaceCookeville$529K
- Jaime Ponce-PortugalChattanooga$412K
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$362K
- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
- Joseph BroucekNashville$262K
- Linda HanGermantown$252K
- Myron StokesCordova$240K
- Melissa PhillipsKnoxville$182K
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.