Marc Rickford, MD
Surgery · Washington, DCNPI 1851318885
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (39.0%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 66.8% of it on its own, with 28 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $7,455 and has fallen 83.1% since, to $1,257 in 2025.
Across 119 payments — averaging $118.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Baxter Healthcare$1K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$601
- Johnson & Johnson$330
- Novo Nordisk$269
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,20530%
- Food & beverage$4,38831%
- Education$5,50039%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 29 | $9,425 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 30 | $1,277 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $1,039 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $601 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $330 |
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $269 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $235 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $175 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 3 | $155 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $102 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $53 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $42 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 2 | $40 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Merck | 1 | $24 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| GSK | 1 | $22 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $20 |
| Watermark Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $14 |
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
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,406
- PHASIX$590
- Signia$275
- Sonicision$152
- PerClot$146
- TISSEEL$127
- HARMONIC Product Family$125
- Wegovy$125
- CoolSeal Generator$112
- ALLODERM$109
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$104
- iDrive$102
How this compares
$14,101 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 117 surgery providers in District of Columbia.
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.
Other surgery in Washington
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- Parag BhanotWashington$131K
- Frederick BrodyWashington$98K
- Babak SaraniWashington$73K
- Megan QuintanaWashington$49K
- Terrence FullumWashington$46K
- Jeffrey ShuppWashington$40K
- Adeel ShamimWashington$38K
- Bruce AbellWashington$36K
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.