Paul Kaminsky, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Portland, ORNPI 1295173763
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $32,236 of the $42,099 with a category attached, or 76.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 92.0% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $22,111 and has fallen 68.1% since, to $7,047 in 2025. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in OR 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 89 payments — averaging $473.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$39K
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- Medtronic$294
- Boston Scientific$170
- Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$143
- Stryker$110
- plus $391 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,0705%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,0002%
- Travel & lodging$3,6929%
- Food & beverage$2,9577%
- Education$32,23677%
- Gifts$1430%
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 | 59 | $38,731 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $2,261 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $294 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $170 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $143 |
| Stryker | 1 | $110 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $67 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $53 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $37 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $33 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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
$42,099 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 25 colon & rectal surgery providers in Oregon.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LoperamideLoperamide Hcl | 19 | $1,296 |
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 16 | $1,191 |
| Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine | 11 | $349 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 16 | $290 |
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 15 | $264 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 51 | $213 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Portland
- Khayree ButlerPortland$93K
- Douglas KhouryPortland$49K
- Daniel HerzigPortland$8K
- Carey WickhamPortland$8K
- Rodrigo Pedraza RosalesPortland$6K
- Scott BrowningPortland$5K
- Sandy FangPortland$5K
- Joseph FrankhousePortland$3K
- Vassiliki TsikitisPortland$3K
- Mark WhitefordPortland$3K
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.