Todd Francone, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Newton, MANPI 1447417738
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (49.5%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 88.1% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $60,394 and has fallen 64.7% since, to $21,307 in 2025. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in MA 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 188 payments — averaging $936.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$155K
- Olympus America Inc.$10K
- Covidien LP$8K
- Medtronic$2K
- Conmed Corporation$269
- Johnson & Johnson$161
- plus $193 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,5706%
- Speaking & faculty fees$57,50033%
- Travel & lodging$14,9879%
- Food & beverage$5,8403%
- Education$87,20050%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 167 | $155,120 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 6 | $9,714 |
| Covidien LP | 5 | $8,173 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $2,475 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $269 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $161 |
| Guard Medical Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $76 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $25 |
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$142,808
- DA VINCI SP$10,600
- Sonicision$2,000
- iDrive$2,000
- AIRSEAL$269
- MONARCH$150
How this compares
$176,105 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 49 colon & rectal surgery providers in Massachusetts.
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 | 11 | $38 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Newton
- Deborah SchnipperNewton$26K
- Patricia SyllaBoston$139K
- Justin MaykelWorcester$88K
- David KleimanBurlington$71K
- Peter MarcelloBurlington$58K
- Lilian ChenBoston$48K
- Jennifer DavidsBoston$36K
- Deborah NagleBoston$33K
- Olga BeresnevaBoston$30K
- Amanda CimsitBoston$25K
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.