Kulsoom Gunn, MD
Trauma Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1235447368
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $9,500 of the $13,253 with a category attached, or 71.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 81.3% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,192 and has fallen 95.0% since, to $260 in 2025. Among trauma surgery clinicians in MO 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 51 payments — averaging $259.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$433
- Boston Scientific$129
- BD$88
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$75
- plus $361 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,29317%
- Food & beverage$1,46011%
- Education$9,50072%
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 | $10,770 |
| Davol Inc. | 11 | $1,396 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $433 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $129 |
| BD | 2 | $88 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $75 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $67 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $41 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $34 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $27 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $24 |
| Vioptix Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $15 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
| Bolder Surgical LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $9 |
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$7,663
- DAVINCI XI$3,000
- Phasix Mesh$1,245
- SPYGLASS$100
How this compares
$13,253 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 30 trauma surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 28 | $112 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other trauma surgery in Saint Louis
- Obeid IlahiSaint Louis$14K
- Rachel CohenSaint Louis$3K
- Abbie JensenSaint Louis$2K
- Stanley SakabuSaint Louis$2K
- Jane TenquistSaint Louis$641
- Kevin MahoneySaint Louis$566
- Nicholas RottlerSaint Louis$450
- Ashly RufSaint Louis$30
- Mark NicolasSpringfield$13K
- Thomas ReardonNorth Kansas City$12K
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.