Kristen Wong, MD
Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1811315385
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (50.9%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 69.5% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $7,054 and has fallen 68.5% since, to $2,223 in 2025.
Across 88 payments — averaging $122.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Davol Inc.$288
- ERBE USA Inc$282
- Medtronic$234
- Enterra Medical, Inc.$223
- plus $400 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,36522%
- Food & beverage$2,94527%
- Education$5,50051%
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 | 60 | $7,515 |
| Boston Scientific | 11 | $1,867 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $288 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 3 | $282 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $234 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 1 | $223 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $150 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $124 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $92 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $34 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$5,500
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$1,604
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,195
- EndoFlip$158
- Phasix Mesh$152
- Zilver PTX$124
- PROGEL$123
- VIO3/APC3/EJ2/ECO2Plus/EIP2-HK/HKFlex/APCPlus/CleverCap$120
How this compares
$10,810 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 382 surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 24 | $378 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 18 | $99 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Birmingham
- Cameron AskewBirmingham$236K
- John TouliatosBirmingham$75K
- Jayme LockeBirmingham$63K
- Eric DuboisBirmingham$36K
- Sherry MeltonBirmingham$29K
- Wesley DesselleBirmingham$21K
- Boris KiriazovBirmingham$17K
- Adam BeckBirmingham$17K
- Cynthia HlavacekBirmingham$9K
- Naveen SinganamalaBirmingham$9K
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.