Roger de la Torre, MD
Surgery · Columbia, MONPI 1134115728
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 57 payments — averaging $222.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$7K
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Covidien LP$179
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$166
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$112
- AbbVie$104
- plus $404 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,46043%
- Travel & lodging$1,22310%
- Food & beverage$2,01216%
- Education$4,00032%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $6,717 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 25 | $5,012 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $179 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $166 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $112 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $104 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $104 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $71 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $63 |
| Ambu Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $28 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $16 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $9 |
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.
How this compares
$12,695 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 612 surgery providers in Missouri.
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.
Other surgery in Columbia
- Andrew WheelerColumbia$298K
- John TannColumbia$216K
- Milot ThaqiColumbia$87K
- Kevin BartowColumbia$54K
- Benjamin GerberColumbia$31K
- Thomas XuColumbia$26K
- Norbert RichardsonColumbia$25K
- Forrest EricksenColumbia$21K
- Tiffany OsbornSaint Louis$493K
- Jeffrey BlatnikSaint Louis$422K
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.