Leslie Browder
Colon & Rectal Surgery · North Las Vegas, NVNPI 1760607162
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (40.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 72.1% of it on its own, with 27 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,397 and has fallen 95.3% since, to $350 in 2024.
Across 100 payments — averaging $99.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Medtronic$1K
- Boston Scientific$382
- Coloplast$323
- Johnson & Johnson$138
- Merck$137
- plus $739 from 22 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $487.50 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$488
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$511%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4505%
- Travel & lodging$1,87919%
- Food & beverage$3,44535%
- Education$4,02540%
- Gifts$961%
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 | 18 | $7,169 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 24 | $1,058 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $382 |
| Coloplast | 9 | $323 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $138 |
| Merck | 9 | $137 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 4 | $118 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $111 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $56 |
| Genmab U.S., Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $52 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $40 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Palette Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $12 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $12 |
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$7,023
- INTERSTIM$334
- Signia$154
- VERIFY$132
- SenSura Mio$124
How this compares
Too few colon & rectal surgery providers in Nevadato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other colon & rectal surgery in North Las Vegas
- Garrett FriedmanLas Vegas$1.2M
- Roger HsiungLas Vegas$44K
- Kent SasseReno$44K
- Ren Yu ZhangLas Vegas$8K
- Ketan ThankiLas Vegas$7K
- Anathea PowellReno$6K
- Calvin LyonsLas Vegas$6K
- Melissa MilesLas Vegas$5K
- Joseph ThorntonLas Vegas$5K
- Godwin OfikwuHenderson$5K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.