Ran Kim, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Walnut Creek, CANPI 1437237005
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.8%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 46 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.1%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $12,219 and has fallen 86.5% since, to $1,651 in 2025.
Across 277 payments — averaging $85.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Medtronic$4K
- Kerecis Limited$3K
- Davol Inc.$2K
- Acell, Inc.$2K
- Axonics, Inc.$1K
- plus $7K from 40 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8,94738%
- Food & beverage$11,85650%
- Education$3,01413%
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.
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.
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$6,919
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,294
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$2,925
- INTERSTIM$2,906
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$1,799
- STRATAFIX$1,116
- HARMONIC Product Family$1,116
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$1,116
- BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$800
- PHASIX$795
- Bulkamid$521
- Axonics r-SNM System$521
- BIO-A Hernia Plug$178
- INTERSTIM ICON$160
- COLLAGENASE SANTYL$150
- Endo GIA$143
- CleanCision$131
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$127
- XIFAXAN$123
- VenaSeal$122
How this compares
$23,817 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 176 colon & rectal surgery providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| TrulancePlecanatide | 25 | $14,668 |
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 48 | $3,142 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 71 | $165 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 11 | $67 |
| Hydrocortisone | 17 | $61 |
| Metronidazole | 12 | $34 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 11 | $17 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCTrulance | $394 | $14,66825 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 176 colon & rectal surgery providers in California.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Walnut Creek
- Poornima VanguriWalnut Creek$12K
- Piyush AggarwalWalnut Creek$9K
- Sang LeeLos Angeles$2.4M
- Pamela LeeSan Diego$544K
- Elizabeth RaskinSacramento$126K
- Shohrat AnnaberdyevRoseville$101K
- Alessio PigazziLos Angeles$100K
- Joseph CarmichaelOrange$99K
- Phillip FleshnerWest Hollywood$95K
- Zuri MurrellBeverly Hills$86K
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.