Kimberly Ponnuru, MD
Surgery · Merriam, KSNPI 1689766230
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $26,507 of the $36,452 with a category attached, or 72.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 98.0% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2024 is the largest year on record at $24,463, more than ten times the $26 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in KS 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 116 payments — averaging $314.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$36K
- Conmed Corporation$146
- TELA Bio, Inc.$120
- Davol Inc.$118
- Baxter Healthcare$71
- MDD US Operations, LLC$41
- plus $244 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,0003%
- Travel & lodging$3,57210%
- Food & beverage$5,35215%
- Education$26,50773%
- Gifts$220%
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 | 95 | $35,712 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $146 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $120 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $71 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Abbott | 2 | $40 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $28 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $25 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 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$33,699
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$118
- OviTex 2S$100
How this compares
$36,452 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 271 surgery providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron Hcl | 54 | $109 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 60 | $106 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 16 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Merriam
- Elizabeth BennettMerriam$10K
- Jeremy HowesWichita$111K
- Christopher MorrisseyWinfield$87K
- Christopher CummingsOverland Park$70K
- Stanley HoehnLenexa$60K
- Robert AragonLenexa$56K
- Bradon BitterWichita$33K
- Maria GoddardOverland Park$31K
- Nicholas BrownWichita$29K
- Lance SavilleManhattan$24K
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.