Sean Watters, MD
Surgery · Portland, ORNPI 1659714160
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $20,137 of the $27,560 with a category attached, or 73.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 98.2% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $9,316 and has fallen 55.6% since, to $4,137 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in OR 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 59 payments — averaging $467.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$27K
- AbbVie$239
- Conmed Corporation$125
- Covidien LP$118
- Boston Scientific$13
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$7503%
- Travel & lodging$4,11415%
- Food & beverage$2,5339%
- Education$20,13773%
- Gifts$250%
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 | 52 | $27,065 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $239 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $125 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $118 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $13 |
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$25,165
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- AIRSEAL$125
- ProGrip$118
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$115
How this compares
$27,560 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 386 surgery providers in Oregon.
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 | 50 | $360 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 48 | $140 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $38 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Portland
- Robert MartindalePortland$795K
- Sean OrensteinPortland$480K
- Vahagn NikolianPortland$277K
- Sabrina DrexelPortland$170K
- Avishai MeyerPortland$159K
- Farah HusainPortland$147K
- Emma PattersonPortland$65K
- Daniel TsengPortland$64K
- Ryland StuckePortland$58K
- Donn SpightPortland$48K
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.