Vivek Kaul, MD
Gastroenterology · Rochester, NYNPI 1659311074
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 260 payments — averaging $890.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated$66K
- US Endoscopy$38K
- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$34K
- Cook Incorporated$33K
- Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc.$17K
- Exact Sciences$16K
- plus $28K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$114,42651%
- Speaking & faculty fees$78,59635%
- Travel & lodging$19,8989%
- Food & beverage$9,3484%
- Education$4,0002%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated | 45 | $66,406 |
| US Endoscopy | 22 | $37,592 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 16 | $33,764 |
| Cook Incorporated | 12 | $32,755 |
| Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc. | 17 | $17,407 |
| Exact Sciences | 23 | $16,129 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 51 | $5,970 |
| Boston Scientific | 14 | $5,912 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $4,262 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $3,190 |
| Steris Corporation | 19 | $3,144 |
| CSA Medical, Inc | 2 | $2,391 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $738 |
| Pentax Of America, Inc. | 9 | $633 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 2 | $227 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $170 |
| Promega Corporation | 2 | $164 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 2 | $142 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $137 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $120 |
| Creo Medical Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Bayer | 1 | $82 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $78 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $32 |
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.
- Instinct$30,524
- TRUFREEZE$27,224
- FUSION$24,197
- Cologuard Collection Kit$14,580
- SureClip$14,489
- Hemospray$13,942
- Cook Medical Biliary$12,468
- gi4000$10,125
- Cook Medical Hemospray$9,662
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$4,559
- Cook Medical Surgery$4,466
- LINZESS$3,500
- Cook Medical Hemostasis$3,452
- Cook Medical Endoscopic Ultrasound$1,650
- Cook Medical Sphincterotomy$1,400
- The Cologuard Plus Collection Kit$820
- AXIOS$740
- EchoTip$550
- All Products$368
- ECHOTIP INSIGHT$301
How this compares
$231,558 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,682 gastroenterology providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 19 | $233 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 13 | $168 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Rochester
- Jonathan WilmotRochester$984K
- Jonathan GoldsteinRochester$963K
- Jonathan HuangRochester$633K
- Michael GerdisYonkers$11.9M
- David HudesmanNew York$3.6M
- Ellen ScherlNew York$2.9M
- Igor GrosmanBrooklyn$2.8M
- Bruce SandsNew York$2.8M
- Arun SwaminathNew York$2.7M
- Sonal KumarNew York$2.3M
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.