Richard Yelverton
Jackson, MSNPI 1992804835
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $68,000 of the $72,360 with a category attached, or 94.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.4% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $37,508 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $156 in 2025.
Across 117 payments — averaging $618.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$70K
- Davol Inc.$857
- AbbVie$631
- Johnson & Johnson$94
- Boston Scientific$51
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$47
- plus $207 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1080%
- Food & beverage$4,2526%
- Education$68,00094%
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 | 53 | $70,472 |
| Davol Inc. | 12 | $857 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 33 | $631 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $94 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $51 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $28 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $25 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $20 |
| Vertex | 1 | $17 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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$70,358
- BD MAX$379
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$123
- PHASIX$112
- Phasix Mesh$104
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.