Sarah Gulledge
Nurse Practitioner · Kansas City, MONPI 1851784805
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (39.1%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 66.4% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,361 and has fallen 74.7% since, to $1,102 in 2025. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in MO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 42 payments — averaging $146.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Davol Inc.$645
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$483
- Bioventus LLC$221
- Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$161
- Endogastric Solutions, Inc$107
- plus $443 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,34822%
- Food & beverage$2,38639%
- Education$2,40039%
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 | 8 | $4,074 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $645 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $483 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $221 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $161 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 2 | $107 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $65 |
| BD | 1 | $57 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $25 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Vertex | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $20 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $14 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $6 |
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$4,018
- Phasix Mesh$497
- Restrata Wound Matrix$483
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$148
- VOQUEZNA$119
- ESOPHYX$100
How this compares
$6,134 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,898 nurse practitioner 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 109 | $954 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 158 | $635 |
| Gabapentin | 58 | $515 |
| Ibuprofen | 37 | $159 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 46 | $75 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Kansas City
- Robert HafnerKansas City$47K
- Courtney JefferyKansas City$24K
- Shea FijalKansas City$18K
- Janay KissingerKansas City$14K
- Jennifer PoundKansas City$11K
- Catherine SpellKansas City$10K
- Lakeisha KellyKansas City$10K
- Moeid RiazKansas City$8K
- Aeron SheffieldChesterfield$269K
- Rachel ImperatoOsage Beach$260K
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.