Nchang Azefor, MD
Surgery · Liberal, KSNPI 1336375104
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (49.7%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 69.0% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,800 and has fallen 63.4% since, to $2,853 in 2025.
Across 67 payments — averaging $165.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Medtronic$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- KCI USA, Inc.$124
- Conmed Corporation$99
- TELA Bio, Inc.$86
- plus $238 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,73434%
- Food & beverage$1,82817%
- Education$5,50050%
- 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 | 19 | $7,643 |
| Medtronic | 19 | $1,576 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 13 | $1,305 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $99 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $45 |
| Stryker | 1 | $41 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $27 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Molli Surgical (US) Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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$1,822
- ProGrip$1,225
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$834
- PREVENA$124
How this compares
$11,070 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 271 surgery providers in Kansas.
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 Liberal
- Jeremy HowesWichita$111K
- Christopher MorrisseyWinfield$87K
- Christopher CummingsOverland Park$70K
- Stanley HoehnLenexa$60K
- Robert AragonLenexa$56K
- Kimberly PonnuruMerriam$36K
- Bradon BitterWichita$33K
- Maria GoddardOverland Park$31K
- Nicholas BrownWichita$29K
- Lance SavilleManhattan$24K
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.