Ronald Nold, MD
Surgery · Wichita, KSNPI 1326045113
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (43.3%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 82.9% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,133 and has fallen 97.9% since, to $88 in 2025.
Across 75 payments — averaging $112.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Davol Inc.$303
- CSL Behring$191
- Smith+Nephew$178
- AstraZeneca$108
- Johnson & Johnson$104
- plus $558 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,92535%
- Food & beverage$1,85622%
- Education$3,66543%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 28 | $7,013 |
| Davol Inc. | 6 | $303 |
| CSL Behring | 5 | $191 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $178 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $108 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $104 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $64 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $60 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $59 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $51 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $50 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $28 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $28 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $25 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $17 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $15 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$3,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,177
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$118
- ANDEXXA$108
How this compares
$8,455 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 271 surgery providers in Kansas.
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 Wichita
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- Nicholas BrownWichita$29K
- Scott PorterWichita$17K
- Sarah CornWichita$15K
- Craig SudbeckWichita$11K
- David GranthamWichita$10K
- Aaron NilhasWichita$9K
- Austin GeorgeWichita$8K
- Omar HasanWichita$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.