Krishna Venkatesh, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Gilbert, AZNPI 1689878472
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.2%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 28 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 44.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $6,554 and has fallen 97.5% since, to $162 in 2025.
Across 104 payments — averaging $134.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Covidien LP$6K
- Merck$391
- Coloplast$330
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$147
- Johnson & Johnson$120
- plus $806 from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,90042%
- Travel & lodging$510%
- Food & beverage$2,42317%
- Education$5,55940%
- Gifts$590%
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 | 13 | $6,284 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $5,916 |
| Merck | 20 | $391 |
| Coloplast | 12 | $330 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 9 | $147 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $120 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 7 | $101 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $76 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $71 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $56 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $49 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 3 | $49 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $27 |
| BD | 1 | $27 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $24 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $18 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $16 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Vertex | 1 | $16 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $15 |
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$6,023
How this compares
$13,992 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 50 colon & rectal surgery providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 50 | $3,359 |
| SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf | 16 | $2,597 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 99 | $1,975 |
| CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar) | 17 | $955 |
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 45 | $736 |
| Budesonide DrBudesonide | 11 | $542 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 33 | $540 |
| Hydrocortisone | 29 | $481 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 22 | $224 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 17 | $118 |
| Metronidazole | 51 | $91 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 11 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab | $101 | $2,59716 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 65th percentile of 50 colon & rectal surgery providers in Arizona.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Gilbert
- Mohamad AbdulhaiGilbert$11K
- Robert CampbellGilbert$4K
- Adatee OkonkwoGilbert$4K
- Karukurichi VenkateshGilbert$2K
- William CiroccoGilbert$1K
- David LarsonGilbert$117
- Deborah KellerScottsdale$195K
- Eugene KimPhoenix$189K
- Sushil PandeySurprise$125K
- Hekmat HakimanChandler$57K
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.