Has Monica Hum received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,009 in general payments to Monica Hum across 94 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Monica Hum did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Monica Hum come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Monica Hum

Colon & Rectal Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1518959634

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,159 of the $5,009 with a category attached, or 83.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 68.4% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,908 and has fallen 85.9% since, to $269 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for colon & rectal surgery clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $4,045.

$5,009in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 94 payments — averaging $53.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$3K
THD America, Inc.$409
Medtronic$312
Davol Inc.$217
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$112
Conmed Corporation$111
plus $422 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$82016%
Food & beverage$4,15983%
Gifts$291%

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
Intuitive Surgical	40	$3,426
THD America, Inc.	7	$409
Medtronic	14	$312
Davol Inc.	2	$217
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	5	$112
Conmed Corporation	1	$111
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	6	$84
Johnson & Johnson	2	$58
Boston Scientific	3	$39
Merck	3	$39
Convatec Inc.	2	$32
Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc.	1	$31
Apollo Endosurgery US Inc	1	$28
Covidien LP	1	$22
Axonics, Inc.	1	$17
Shire North American Group Inc	1	$17
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$15
Baxter Healthcare	1	$14
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.	1	$14
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	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.

How this compares

$5,009 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 66 colon & rectal surgery providers in Georgia.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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