Paul Bown, MD
Surgery · Huntington, WVNPI 1326032764
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,500 of the $7,100 with a category attached, or 63.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.8% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,316 and has fallen 73.6% since, to $1,405 in 2025.
Across 51 payments — averaging $139.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- AbbVie$114
- Acell, Inc.$39
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$69510%
- Travel & lodging$4,50063%
- Food & beverage$1,80625%
- Education$981%
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 | 48 | $6,947 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $114 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
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$5,886
How this compares
$7,100 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 162 surgery providers in West Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neomycin Sulfate | 13 | $77 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Huntington
- Farzad AmiriHuntington$66K
- Semeret MunieHuntington$9K
- Matthew KrantzHuntington$7K
- Agon KajmolliHuntington$7K
- Stephen WilsonHuntington$5K
- Juan SanabriaHuntington$4K
- Matthew HofeldtHuntington$4K
- Andrew WeaverHuntington$3K
- Jake RubensteinHuntington$3K
- Darren NeaseCharleston$107K
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.