Uttara Nag, MD
Vascular Surgery · Columbia, MONPI 1427478973
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,602 of the $7,025 with a category attached, or 79.7%. It is spread thinly across 25 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in MO, where the typical reported total is $6,319.
Across 81 payments — averaging $86.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Penumbra, Inc.$592
- Shape Memory Medical Inc.$357
- Cook Medical LLC$352
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,07315%
- Food & beverage$5,60280%
- Education$3505%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 6 | $1,510 |
| Medtronic | 13 | $1,416 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 11 | $1,026 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 4 | $592 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 2 | $357 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 7 | $352 |
| Philips North America LLC | 8 | $296 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 3 | $269 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 3 | $183 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $145 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 4 | $128 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $111 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 2 | $94 |
| Koya Medical, Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $56 |
| Abbott | 2 | $54 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $24 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $17 |
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.
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,618
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$1,455
- ENDURANT IIS$917
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$426
- IMPEDE EMBOLIZATION PLUG$306
- Penumbra System$291
- Zenith Spiral-Z$218
- RUBY Coil$166
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$163
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$161
- Indigo System$135
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$125
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$118
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$111
How this compares
$7,025 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 92 vascular surgery providers in Missouri.
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.
Other vascular surgery in Columbia
- Jonathan BathColumbia$76K
- Walter NicholsColumbia$56K
- Todd VogelColumbia$52K
- Sepehr KarimiColumbia$21K
- Kaitlyn RountreeColumbia$20K
- Steven CheungColumbia$6K
- Erica SalinasColumbia$5K
- Jeffrey JimSaint Louis$1.2M
- Karl StarkNorth Kansas City$223K
- Brian PetersonSaint Louis$216K
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.