Scott Sutherland, MD
Pediatric Nephrology · Palo Alto, CANPI 1518027291
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $5,600 of the $5,600 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Medtronic accounts for 89.3% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest.
Across 2 payments — averaging $2800.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Nuwellis, Inc.$600
Across 65 payments — averaging $5514.12 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Hoffmann-la Roche Limited$120K
- AbbVie$100K
- Bayer$88K
- Baxter Healthcare$42K
- Akebia Therapeutics Inc$8K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,600100%
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 | 1 | $5,000 |
| Nuwellis, Inc. | 1 | $600 |
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
$5,600 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 75 pediatric nephrology providers in California.
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 pediatric nephrology in Palo Alto
- Paul GrimmPalo Alto$99K
- Shina MenonPalo Alto$28K
- Sophia GiangPalo Alto$15K
- Ruby PatelPalo Alto$6K
- Minnie SarwalPalo Alto$3K
- Steven AlexanderPalo Alto$418
- Abanti ChaudhuriPalo Alto$369
- Sara KibromPalo Alto$366
- Ken SuthaPalo Alto$361
- Donald PotterPalo Alto$244
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.