Paul Szotek, MD
Surgery · Indianapolis, INNPI 1649437922
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $2,190,729 of the $2,382,861 with a category attached, or 91.9%. TELA Bio, Inc. accounts for 99.2% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in IN 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 1,044 payments — averaging $2282.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- TELA Bio, Inc.$2.4M
- Covidien LP$18K
- AbbVie$652
- TAS Medical, Inc.$422
- Intuitive Surgical$233
- Conmed Corporation$223
- plus $22 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,190,72992%
- Speaking & faculty fees$18,0001%
- Travel & lodging$141,0096%
- Food & beverage$32,8271%
- Education$2520%
- Entertainment$440%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1,024 | $2,363,083 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $18,225 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $652 |
| TAS Medical, Inc. | 6 | $422 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $233 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $223 |
| Biotissue Holdings 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.
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$1,753,236
- OviTex 2S$359,906
- Ovitex$232,424
- BOTOX$600
- AIRSEAL$199
How this compares
$2,382,861 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 524 surgery providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 50 | $76 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Indianapolis
- Michael MillerIndianapolis$53K
- Marita BaumanIndianapolis$29K
- Rosalie CarrIndianapolis$24K
- Steven MongIndianapolis$22K
- Jonathan MandelbaumIndianapolis$21K
- Jenalee CookseyIndianapolis$19K
- Chandrashekhar KubalIndianapolis$15K
- John PowelsonIndianapolis$14K
- Carlos Gonzalez RendonMunster$275K
- Anthony ZappiaCarmel$105K
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.