Randal Baker, MD
Surgery · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1104867480
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 116 payments — averaging $274.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$17K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$8K
- Johnson & Johnson$5K
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- Covidien LP$229
- Medtronic$159
- plus $136 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$11,36536%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,78028%
- Travel & lodging$3,21810%
- Food & beverage$2,5088%
- Education$6,00019%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 33 | $16,908 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 48 | $7,923 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 10 | $4,579 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $1,950 |
| Covidien LP | 12 | $229 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $159 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $78 |
| Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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$9,058
- DA VINCI SP$7,399
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$4,683
- Product in Development$2,640
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$1,905
- TISSEEL$1,905
- FLOSEAL$1,780
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$1,100
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$1,100
- SEAMGUARD$143
- iDrive$125
- Signia$107
How this compares
$31,885 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,081 surgery providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sucralfate | 49 | $3,922 |
| Misoprostol | 16 | $859 |
| Omeprazole | 46 | $674 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Grand Rapids
- Paul KemmeterGrand Rapids$84K
- James FooteGrand Rapids$39K
- Ozanan MeirelesLansing$2.3M
- Amer AfanehDetroit$872K
- Robert BartlettAnn Arbor$859K
- Matthew FourmanMonroe$492K
- Bruce McIntoshRochester Hills$467K
- Marwan AbouljoudDetroit$446K
- Jon SchramZeeland$397K
- Bellal JosephDetroit$348K
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.