Mario Morales, MD
Surgery · Bridgeton, MONPI 1760580989
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (26.8%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 64.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,721, more than ten times the $681 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in MO 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 95 payments — averaging $259.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$16K
- Johnson & Johnson$7K
- Applied Medical Resources Corporation$1K
- Medtronic$175
- Covidien LP$123
- GE HealthCare$41
- plus $45 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,46022%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,00020%
- Travel & lodging$4,79819%
- Food & beverage$2,81311%
- Education$6,60827%
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 | 36 | $15,882 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 49 | $7,098 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 2 | $1,314 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $175 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $123 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $41 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $23 |
| Stryker | 1 | $22 |
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.
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$11,285
- Echelon Flex$10,920
- DAVINCI XI$6,124
- DA VINCI SP$5,300
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,906
- GelPOINT V-Path$1,300
- HARMONIC Product Family$221
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$125
- Sonicision$123
- DERMABOND$119
- Harmonic$119
How this compares
$24,679 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 612 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sucralfate | 19 | $3,086 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 93 | $893 |
| Omeprazole | 50 | $347 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 12 | $248 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 13 | $191 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 22 | $79 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Bridgeton
- Betsy KrebsBridgeton$59K
- Andrea SchwoererBridgeton$22K
- James ScottSaint Louis$307K
- Omar GuerraSaint Louis$249K
- John TannColumbia$216K
- Mark DrakeSaint Louis$212K
- Adeel KhanSaint Louis$204K
- Michael AwadSaint Louis$176K
- Patricia HodginsFenton$145K
- Laurie PunchSaint Louis$141K
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.