Stuart Donovan, MD
Vascular Surgery · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1760469183
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $24,645 of the $30,563 with a category attached, or 80.6%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 53.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $26,747 and has fallen 97.6% since, to $653 in 2025. Among vascular surgery clinicians in OH 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 56 payments — averaging $545.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$16K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$12K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$885
- Intuitive Surgical$751
- Abbott$696
- AbbVie$146
- plus $202 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$24,64581%
- Travel & lodging$3,06610%
- Food & beverage$2,8539%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 23 | $16,365 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $11,520 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 8 | $885 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 10 | $751 |
| Abbott | 4 | $696 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $146 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $107 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Vertex | 1 | $19 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $17 |
| Heron Therapeutics, 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.
How this compares
$30,563 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 213 vascular surgery providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 88 | $192 |
| Methocarbamol | 46 | $107 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 44 | $87 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $13 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Cincinnati
- Patrick MuckCincinnati$650K
- Brian KuhnCincinnati$184K
- Matthew RechtCincinnati$73K
- Geoffrey AnswiniCincinnati$65K
- Christopher PaprzyckiCincinnati$40K
- Richard FriesCincinnati$33K
- Sasidhar KilaruCincinnati$33K
- Andrew HearnCincinnati$24K
- Aaron KulwickiCincinnati$23K
- En Yaw HongCincinnati$11K
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.