Ryan Kennedy, MD
Trauma Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1922238294
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (45.5%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.2% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,734, more than ten times the $24 reported in 2019. Among trauma surgery clinicians in TX 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 45 payments — averaging $391.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$17K
- Merck$112
- Haemonetics Corporation$51
- CSL Behring$42
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$39
- Kls-martin L.p.$39
- plus $202 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,50037%
- Travel & lodging$2,23113%
- Food & beverage$8695%
- Education$8,00045%
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 | 27 | $17,115 |
| Merck | 4 | $112 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $51 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $42 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $39 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $39 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $34 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $25 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $24 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $18 |
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$12,797
- DAVINCI XI$4,000
How this compares
$17,600 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 108 trauma surgery providers in Texas.
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 trauma surgery in Dallas
- Kara MondayDallas$12K
- Jennifer MooneyDallas$9K
- Christopher GuidryDallas$9K
- Matthew LovittDallas$8K
- Laura PetreyDallas$7K
- Sneha BhatDallas$6K
- Geoffrey FunkDallas$5K
- Adora Tricia SantosDallas$5K
- Anthony TannousDallas$4K
- Vanessa ShiffletteDallas$3K
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.