Timothy Dawson, MD
Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1336502467
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $51,000 of the $63,068 with a category attached, or 80.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 96.7% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $25,230 and has fallen 66.8% since, to $8,385 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in KY 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 110 payments — averaging $573.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$61K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$1K
- Davol Inc.$227
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$178
- Endogastric Solutions, Inc$102
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$67
- plus $280 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,5004%
- Travel & lodging$4,2287%
- Food & beverage$5,3278%
- Education$51,00081%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 76 | $61,017 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 16 | $1,197 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $227 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $178 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $102 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $67 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $60 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $36 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $34 |
| Vertex | 1 | $30 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $28 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$63,068 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 377 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron Hcl | 44 | $381 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 45 | $127 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Louisville
- John OldhamLouisville$515K
- Frank MillerLouisville$119K
- Jared DavisLouisville$89K
- Gary VitaleLouisville$63K
- John OlsofkaLouisville$42K
- Keith MillerLouisville$38K
- Gerald CheadleLouisville$22K
- Farid KehdyLouisville$22K
- George MarshallLouisville$19K
- Bradley SchwackLouisville$18K
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.