Kurt Kohler, PA
Surgical · Spokane, WANPI 1013981562
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,928 of the $2,918 with a category attached, or 66.1%. Baxter Healthcare accounts for 61.1% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,189 and has fallen 97.5% since, to $30 in 2025. Among surgical clinicians in WA 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 35 payments — averaging $83.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$396
- Abiomed$233
- Atricure, Inc.$205
- Boston Scientific$107
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$106
- plus $88 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$99034%
- Food & beverage$1,92866%
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 | 14 | $1,783 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $396 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $233 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $205 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $107 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $106 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $35 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $22 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 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.
How this compares
$2,918 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 404 surgical providers in Washington.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Potassium Chloride | 31 | $469 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 27 | $310 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 18 | $157 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 53 | $139 |
| Mupirocin | 16 | $119 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 30 | $114 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 11 | $76 |
| Furosemide | 33 | $51 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 17 | $46 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $42 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 14 | $42 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 12 | $4 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical in Spokane
- Jin Lo TomblinSpokane$21K
- James GarciaSpokane$3K
- Sara GussenhovenSpokane$2K
- Gretchen ThornerYakima$612K
- Jana FlenerRenton$93K
- Jeffrey StepanianKirkland$52K
- Philip HujdicRenton$17K
- Mark MashitaEverett$16K
- Lee Or RutenbergSeattle$13K
- Wesley SumrallBremerton$8K
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.