Richard Yelverton, MD
General Surgery · Jackson, MSNPI 1295834166
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,265 of the $5,374 with a category attached, or 79.4%. 37 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 37.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,003, 3.6 times the $551 reported in 2019.
Across 151 payments — averaging $35.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Davol Inc.$686
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$505
- Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.$379
- TELA Bio, Inc.$249
- AbbVie$242
- plus $1K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5009%
- Travel & lodging$60911%
- Food & beverage$4,26579%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 14 | $2,027 |
| Davol Inc. | 14 | $686 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 30 | $505 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 15 | $379 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 7 | $249 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 12 | $242 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 4 | $139 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $121 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 4 | $90 |
| Vertex | 4 | $70 |
| CSL Behring | 3 | $63 |
| Molli Surgical (US) Inc | 1 | $62 |
| Merck | 3 | $58 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $56 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $55 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 2 | $53 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $50 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $48 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $47 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $46 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $36 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $28 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $20 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $14 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $12 |
| Bolder Surgical LLC | 1 | $5 |
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$1,669
- Phasix Mesh$146
How this compares
Too few general surgery providers in Mississippito place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 11 | $681 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 13 | $91 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other general surgery in Jackson
- Steven PattersonJackson$14K
- Patrick ScanlonJackson$10K
- James ChandlerJackson$7K
- Christopher LahrJackson$0
- Geoffrey FlattmannNatchez$26K
- David RimmerBay St Louis$2K
- Philip DoolittleGreenville$0
- Jeffery DoolittleGreenville$0
- Jaiyeola AdeleyeClarksdale$0
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.