Robert Farrell, MD
Surgery · Bardstown, KYNPI 1245433051
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (54.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 76.9% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $14,154 and has fallen 96.6% since, to $476 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in KY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 116 payments — averaging $173.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$2K
- Novo Nordisk$840
- Standard Bariatrics, Inc.$799
- Teleflex LLC$312
- Davol Inc.$207
- plus $928 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,97510%
- Travel & lodging$3,73119%
- Food & beverage$3,44817%
- Education$11,00055%
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 | 34 | $15,493 |
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 1 | $1,575 |
| Novo Nordisk | 35 | $840 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 5 | $799 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $312 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $207 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $181 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $162 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $128 |
| Echosens North America, Inc. | 1 | $127 |
| Vertex | 3 | $77 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $50 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $27 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $24 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $20 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $12 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $7 |
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$13,805
- ENSEAL Product Family$1,575
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- TITAN SGS STANDARD GASTRIC STAPLER$772
- STANDARD CLAMP, DISPOSABLE$144
- FibroScan$127
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$122
- Saxenda$118
- TITAN SGS BAILOUT CHUCK$117
- Signia$106
How this compares
$20,154 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 377 surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 26 | $23,992 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $840 | $23,99226 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 90th percentile of 377 surgery providers in Kentucky.
Other surgery in Bardstown
- Richard MontgomeryBardstown$21K
- Eric SmithAshland$1.1M
- John RothLexington$820K
- John OldhamLouisville$515K
- George MundayDanville$271K
- Amber KoonHenderson$210K
- Frank MillerLouisville$119K
- Jared DavisLouisville$89K
- Aaron HouseCorbin$79K
- James WatkinsCampbellsville$70K
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.