Neel Karne, MD
Surgery · Beloit, WINPI 1871728014
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (28.0%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 38.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $9,816 and has fallen 79.4% since, to $2,020 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in WI 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 106 payments — averaging $221.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Organogenesis Inc.$7K
- Medtronic$3K
- AbbVie$3K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$510
- plus $344 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,40019%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,91117%
- Travel & lodging$5,56824%
- Food & beverage$3,07013%
- Education$6,57828%
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 | 23 | $9,031 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 19 | $6,648 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 28 | $2,922 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 18 | $2,565 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $1,508 |
| Stryker | 1 | $510 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $115 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $49 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $34 |
| BD | 1 | $25 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $17 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Amgen | 1 | $13 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $11 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $11 |
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$6,500
- Affinity$5,069
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,996
- ALLODERM$1,840
- NuShield$1,713
- Apligraf$1,658
- PURAPLY WOUND MATRIX$1,538
- NOVACHOR$1,538
- PlasmaBlade$1,508
- Product in Development$1,508
- PuraPly$913
- 1688$510
- Mavyret$125
- Humira$120
- STELARA$115
How this compares
$23,527 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 499 surgery providers in Wisconsin.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 60 | $219 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Beloit
- Nissage CadetBeloit$24K
- Peter UllrichAppleton$18M
- Matthew GoldblattMilwaukee$594K
- Raymond GeorgenNeenah$325K
- Cynthia GeocarisGreen Bay$263K
- Rana HigginsMilwaukee$148K
- Mustafa BadruddujaKenosha$134K
- Geoffrey RoelantEau Claire$118K
- Peter JanuChilton$113K
- Manfred ChiangBrookfield$110K
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.