Kevin Ward, MD
Surgery · Meridian, MSNPI 1821082322
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (47.0%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 83.6% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,643 and has fallen 98.0% since, to $112 in 2025.
Across 87 payments — averaging $97.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Smith+Nephew$335
- Endologix LLC$277
- AbbVie$243
- Laborie Medical Technologies Corp.$97
- Organogenesis Inc.$66
- plus $378 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,05824%
- Food & beverage$2,43529%
- Education$4,00047%
- 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 | 25 | $7,106 |
| Smith+Nephew | 27 | $335 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $277 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $243 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $97 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Dentsply IH Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $45 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $28 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $14 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $2 |
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$6,698
- Ovation$277
How this compares
$8,502 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 223 surgery providers in Mississippi.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tamoxifen Citrate | 15 | $601 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 99 | $596 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 13 | $82 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Meridian
- David BaileyGulfport$491K
- Daniel ForeSouthaven$254K
- Jason WilliamsOcean Springs$106K
- Laura VickJackson$77K
- Juvonda HodgeJackson$77K
- Richard McAdoryTupelo$39K
- Andy HolleyCorinth$38K
- Terry PinsonTupelo$35K
- Jonathan CarrollJackson$33K
- Andrew MalletteJackson$29K
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.