Vincent Obias, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1053402487
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (49.7%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 24.4% of the total. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in OH 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 255 payments — averaging $487.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$30K
- Covidien LP$29K
- THD America, Inc.$25K
- Medtronic$19K
- Potrero Medical, Inc.$10K
- Surgical Theater. Inc.$3K
- plus $7K from 19 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $6153.75 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Covidien LP$6K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$31,83226%
- Speaking & faculty fees$61,78150%
- Travel & lodging$14,13911%
- Food & beverage$12,28810%
- Education$4,3013%
- Gifts$720%
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 | 46 | $30,393 |
| Covidien LP | 30 | $29,360 |
| THD America, Inc. | 27 | $25,259 |
| Medtronic | 24 | $18,899 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 8 | $10,024 |
| Surgical Theater. Inc. | 13 | $3,106 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 12 | $3,018 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 54 | $2,195 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $295 |
| Virtual Incision Corporation | 2 | $294 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $237 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 7 | $174 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $172 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $141 |
| Stryker | 3 | $133 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $130 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $83 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $65 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Merck | 2 | $33 |
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$28,772
- EEA$5,352
- Senhance Surgical Robotics System$2,182
- Senhance$1,800
- DA VINCI SP$600
- Harmonic$409
- AIRSEAL$295
- Mira!$294
- Echelon Flex$285
- Enseal$285
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$283
- STRATAFIX$283
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$247
- Signia$241
- Enseal X1$229
- Ovitex$172
- Titan SGS$141
- Skyrizi$120
- Monarch Platform$118
- Rinvoq$118
How this compares
$124,413 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 101 colon & rectal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 24 | $884 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 32 | $680 |
| Metronidazole | 27 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Cleveland
- David RosenCleveland$102K
- Jean AshburnCleveland$81K
- Anna SpivakCleveland$54K
- Scott SteeleCleveland$28K
- Michael LiuCleveland$18K
- Conor DelaneyCleveland$16K
- Stefan HolubarCleveland$12K
- David DietzCleveland$11K
- Haniee ChungCleveland$11K
- Hermann KesslerCleveland$10K
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.