Robert Stevens, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1902934755
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (55.3%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 82.6% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,629 and has fallen 86.4% since, to $629 in 2025.
Across 63 payments — averaging $102.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Medtronic$893
- Johnson & Johnson$129
- Conmed Corporation$101
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5008%
- Travel & lodging$3,56055%
- Food & beverage$1,38121%
- Education$1,00016%
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 | 23 | $5,318 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 36 | $893 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $129 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $101 |
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$3,997
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- INTERSTIM$387
- HARMONIC Product Family$107
How this compares
$6,440 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 27 colon & rectal surgery providers in North Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 28 | $1,972 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 44 | $231 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 34 | $186 |
| Metronidazole | 47 | $98 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Charlotte
- William LymanCharlotte$11K
- Bradley DavisCharlotte$7K
- Guillaume ChevrollierCharlotte$7K
- Brian JerbyCharlotte$515
- John MorrisonCharlotte$440
- Benny ChongConcord$32K
- Coen KlosHendersonville$14K
- Julie ThackerDurham$14K
- Joseph PayneWilmington$9K
- Stanley FullerWinston Salem$8K
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.