Vishal Kudav
Surgery · Columbia, MONPI 1639551054
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 91 payments — averaging $97.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Gyrus ACMI, Inc.$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$658
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$514
- plus $870 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,80020%
- Travel & lodging$2,35627%
- Food & beverage$3,57540%
- Education$1,15013%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 26 | $2,149 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1 | $1,800 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 10 | $1,738 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $1,151 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 10 | $658 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 6 | $514 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $221 |
| Endolumik, Inc. | 2 | $166 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $23 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $18 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Digestive Care, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $12 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 1 | $11 |
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$1,401
- LigaSure$1,175
- APOLLO ESG System$980
- X-Tack Endoscopic HeliX Tacking System$494
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$374
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$234
- Sonicision$152
- SEAMGUARD$150
- Phasix Mesh$150
- ProGrip$137
- ECHELON ENDOPATH Stapler$123
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System Sx$123
- ORBERA Intragastric Balloon System$123
- Endolumik Gastric Calibration Tube$100
How this compares
$8,880 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 612 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 surgery in Columbia
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- John TannColumbia$216K
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- Kevin BartowColumbia$54K
- Benjamin GerberColumbia$31K
- Thomas XuColumbia$26K
- Norbert RichardsonColumbia$25K
- Forrest EricksenColumbia$21K
- Tiffany OsbornSaint Louis$493K
- Jeffrey BlatnikSaint Louis$422K
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.