Kolton Kuykendall, CRNA
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered · Dallas, TXNPI 1811267511
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $638 of the $838 with a category attached, or 76.1%. It is spread thinly across 8 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among nurse anesthetist, certified registered clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 23 payments — averaging $36.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baxter Healthcare$200
- BD$151
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$125
- Octapharma USA, Inc.$113
- Merck$104
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$75
- plus $71 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20024%
- Food & beverage$63876%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $200 |
| BD | 5 | $151 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $125 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 5 | $113 |
| Merck | 5 | $104 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $75 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $55 |
| Vertex | 1 | $16 |
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.
- EXPAREL$125
How this compares
$838 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,115 nurse anesthetist, certified registered providers in Texas.
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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.
Other nurse anesthetist, certified registered in Dallas
- Amy RobbinsDallas$31K
- Siavosh SaateeDallas$14K
- Stephen LeeDallas$10K
- Melanie AtkinsonDallas$8K
- Brandon MitchellDallas$6K
- Mary BaskinDallas$4K
- Jennifer LorenzoDallas$4K
- Leigh LangleyDallas$3K
- Mindy HartDallas$3K
- Bonnie WintonDallas$3K
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.