Nathan Richards, MD
Surgery · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1568663425
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $132,000 of the $162,481 with a category attached, or 81.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $56,828 and has fallen 84.8% since, to $8,650 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in UT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 161 payments — averaging $1009.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$162K
- Johnson & Johnson$12
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$16,00010%
- Travel & lodging$6,7264%
- Food & beverage$7,5405%
- Education$132,00081%
- Gifts$2150%
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 | 160 | $162,469 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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$153,823
- DA VINCI SP$7,059
How this compares
$162,481 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 202 surgery providers in Utah.
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 Salt Lake City
- Jorge de Amorim FilhoSalt Lake City$344K
- Daniel CottamSalt Lake City$294K
- Mark MawhinneySalt Lake City$169K
- Jennwood ChenSalt Lake City$61K
- Brian CookSalt Lake City$60K
- Rodrick McKinlaySalt Lake City$55K
- Ellen MorrowSalt Lake City$41K
- Angelo ChachasSalt Lake City$33K
- Vivian WangSalt Lake City$26K
- Douglas GreerSalt Lake City$26K
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.