Kevin Ko, MD
Anesthesiology · New Brunswick, NJNPI 1174972129
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $8,590 of the $13,370 with a category attached, or 64.3%. Abbott accounts for 75.9% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $6,275 and has fallen 93.4% since, to $416 in 2025. Among anesthesiology clinicians in NJ 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 110 payments — averaging $121.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$10K
- Medtronic$1K
- Nevro Corp.$507
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$375
- Boston Scientific$274
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$207
- plus $427 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8,59064%
- Food & beverage$4,78036%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 59 | $10,147 |
| Medtronic | 20 | $1,433 |
| Nevro Corp. | 8 | $507 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $375 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $274 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 7 | $207 |
| Painteq LLC | 2 | $174 |
| Stryker | 2 | $61 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 2 | $46 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $44 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $21 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$8,650
- Intracept$1,500
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$964
- ETERNA$469
- Senza$252
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$150
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$124
- Omnia$121
How this compares
$13,370 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,430 anesthesiology providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 19 | $576 |
| Pregabalin | 20 | $160 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 22 | $95 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other anesthesiology in New Brunswick
- Enrique PantinNew Brunswick$29K
- Brian RaffelNew Brunswick$4K
- Ushma ThomasNew Brunswick$3K
- Alexander KahanNew Brunswick$3K
- Antonio ChiricoloNew Brunswick$3K
- Denes PappNew Brunswick$2K
- Aryeh ShanderEnglewood$762K
- Ronak DesaiCamden$343K
- Joseph StaufferSkillman$95K
- Baher YanniEast Windsor$82K
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.