Poornima Rao, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $4,000 of the $5,628 with a category attached, or 71.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 98.7% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,553 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $32 in 2021.
Across 18 payments — averaging $312.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$32
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$23
- Abbott$17
Across 3 payments — averaging $843.75 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Caris MPI, Inc.$3K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,20721%
- Food & beverage$4227%
- Education$4,00071%
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 | 15 | $5,557 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $32 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $23 |
| Abbott | 1 | $17 |
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$5,309
How this compares
$5,628 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 386 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase | 17 | $15,206 |
| Calcitriol | 15 | $196 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 14 | $89 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 21 | $87 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 21 | $78 |
| Metronidazole | 13 | $42 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 11 | $34 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 11 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Bend
- Edward BoyleBend$618K
- Timothy BeardBend$211K
- Andrew JonesBend$85K
- Jana VanamburgBend$81K
- Stephen ArcherBend$22K
- Robert MartindalePortland$795K
- Sean OrensteinPortland$480K
- Vahagn NikolianPortland$277K
- Ann RustHermiston$173K
- Sabrina DrexelPortland$170K
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.