Kevin Nguyen, PhD
Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1598884413
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $120,150 of the $160,892 with a category attached, or 74.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 95.4% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $64,302, more than ten times the $834 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in GA 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 237 payments — averaging $678.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$154K
- Histosonics, Inc.$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$879
- Smith+Nephew$542
- Boston Scientific$303
- Biocompatibles, Inc.$289
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,0001%
- Speaking & faculty fees$15,2509%
- Travel & lodging$13,2738%
- Food & beverage$10,2116%
- Education$120,15075%
- 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 | 166 | $153,561 |
| Histosonics, Inc. | 4 | $3,716 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 10 | $879 |
| Smith+Nephew | 10 | $542 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $303 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 2 | $289 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $206 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $202 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $192 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $147 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $108 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Intera Oncology, Inc | 1 | $94 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Stryker | 1 | $60 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $53 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $51 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $48 |
| Vivus LLC | 3 | $43 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $29 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $27 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $20 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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$148,604
- DA VINCI SP$2,400
- DAVINCI XI$750
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$306
- THERASPHERE-BIO$289
- Echelon Flex$253
- Stravix$238
- TheraSphere Y90 Glass Microspheres 10 GBq$164
- SPYGLASS$139
- VISTASEAL$134
- Nanoknife$133
- XIFAXAN$125
- Grafix$123
- MATRIXRIB$119
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$114
- Emprint$108
- Enseal$104
- DERMABOND PRINEO$104
- LENVIMA$100
How this compares
$160,892 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 855 surgery providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 54 | $237 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Atlanta
- Kendra GrubbAtlanta$374K
- Ankit PatelAtlanta$217K
- Nathaniel LytleAtlanta$118K
- David ParkAtlanta$112K
- Dominic PapandriaAtlanta$60K
- Kenneth NewellAtlanta$50K
- Marwan KazimiAtlanta$33K
- Charles ProcterAtlanta$27K
- Vishwanath DanthuluriAtlanta$27K
- Idelberto BadellAtlanta$27K
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.