Has Royce Calhoun, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $19,538 in general payments to Royce Calhoun, MD across 57 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Royce Calhoun, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Royce Calhoun, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Royce Calhoun, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Edgewood, KYNPI 1477535110

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $13,500 of the $19,538 with a category attached, or 69.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 91.2% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $13,535 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $16 in 2025.

$19,538in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $342.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$18K
Davol Inc.$598
Medtronic$360
Covidien LP$262
Johnson & Johnson$217
BD$158
plus $133 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,30817%
Food & beverage$2,72914%
Education$13,50069%

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	$17,810
Davol Inc.	7	$598
Medtronic	3	$360
Covidien LP	2	$262
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	7	$217
BD	2	$158
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$107
AstraZeneca	1	$26

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

$19,538 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 98 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$59,250

Medicare patients

132

Services billed

274

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	66	$669
Levofloxacin	18	$49
Prednisone	16	$15

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Edgewood

Mario Castillo-SangEdgewood$163K
Michael KastenEdgewood$32K
Juan Penaranda-CanalEdgewood$30K
George ChristensenEdgewood$19K
Michael JohnsonEdgewood$8K
Valerie WilliamsEdgewood$8K
Michael IsingEdgewood$5K
Steven PetersonLouisville$283K
Edward CantuLexington$74K
Mansi Shah-JadejaLexington$45K

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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.

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