Sandra Kavalukas, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1164570867
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,900 of the $7,182 with a category attached, or 68.2%. Medtronic accounts for 84.7% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,345 and has fallen 93.7% since, to $337 in 2025.
Across 41 payments — averaging $175.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$6K
- Baxter Healthcare$384
- Intuitive Surgical$182
- Boston Scientific$158
- Davol Inc.$138
- Conmed Corporation$85
- plus $150 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,90068%
- Travel & lodging$1592%
- Food & beverage$2,12330%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 18 | $6,085 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $384 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $182 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $158 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $85 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $29 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Signia$703
- Phasix Mesh$138
- GI Genius$108
- PerClot$105
- Da Vinci Surgical System$101
How this compares
$7,182 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 28 colon & rectal surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine | 30 | $2,031 |
| Metronidazole | 38 | $142 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $133 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 27 | $99 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Louisville
- Nechol AllenLouisville$18K
- Jeffrey JordenLouisville$13K
- Ryan JonesLouisville$7K
- Wayne TucksonLouisville$6K
- Michelle JulienLouisville$4K
- Russell FarmerLouisville$3K
- Clayton EllisLouisville$3K
- Scarlett HaoLouisville$2K
- Susan GalandiukLouisville$1K
- Amy WiseLouisville$496
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.