Timothy Wierson, MD
Surgery · Bowling Green, KYNPI 1295731602
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $42,089 of the $51,372 with a category attached, or 81.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 93.1% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. 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 129 payments — averaging $398.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$48K
- Medtronic$936
- Boston Scientific$827
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$510
- TELA Bio, Inc.$385
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$183
- plus $725 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,7665%
- Food & beverage$6,50313%
- Education$42,08982%
- Gifts$150%
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 | 56 | $47,806 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 14 | $936 |
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $827 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 4 | $510 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 8 | $385 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $183 |
| Stryker | 4 | $151 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $143 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $86 |
| Vertex | 2 | $45 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 2 | $36 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $33 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $31 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Merck | 1 | $24 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $16 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $13 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $12 |
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$47,025
- Solero$126
- ENDURANT IIS$116
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$110
How this compares
$51,372 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 11 | $538 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 113 | $484 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 18 | $89 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 17 | $85 |
| Metronidazole | 17 | $49 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Bowling Green
- Michael CampbellBowling Green$13K
- Eric SmithAshland$1.1M
- John RothLexington$820K
- John OldhamLouisville$515K
- George MundayDanville$271K
- Amber KoonHenderson$210K
- Frank MillerLouisville$119K
- Jared DavisLouisville$89K
- Aaron HouseCorbin$79K
- James WatkinsCampbellsville$70K
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.