Manufacturer or GPO Program year 2025 Source: CMS Open Payments

Intuitive Surgical, Inc.

CA, United States

CMS manufacturer 100000005384

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General payments

$428,874,452

668,025 payments

Research payments

$0

0 payments

Ownership & investment interest

$1,072,465

4 holdings by physicians or their families

Through program year 2025, Intuitive Surgical, Inc. reported paying $428,874,452 in general payments and $0 in research payments to U.S. physicians, teaching hospitals and other recipients.

No combined total These are different kinds of money, reported under different rules. A meal and a clinical trial grant do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Amount Payments
2025 General $70,039,237 102,573
2024 General $74,195,093 126,596
2023 General $71,978,704 112,664
2022 General $66,372,100 103,187
2021 General $53,880,470 68,483
2020 General $37,848,233 50,206
2019 General $54,560,614 104,316

Breakdown

Top recipients General payments · program year 2025
  1. Board Of Trustees Of The University Teaching hospital · IL $1,171,898 66 payments
  2. Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Cntr Teaching hospital · TX $883,790 24 payments
  3. Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital Teaching hospital · CA $881,964 138 payments
  4. Douglas Stoddard Surgery · Austin, TX $578,151 485 payments
  5. Hartford Hospital Teaching hospital · CT $506,103 22 payments
  6. Andy Hawthorne Surgery · Round Rock, TX $465,069 525 payments
  7. Gaby Moawad Gynecology · Washington, DC $412,703 167 payments
  8. Cleveland Clinic Hospital Teaching hospital · OH $400,000 21 payments
  9. Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester Teaching hospital · MN $391,219 14 payments
  10. St. Josephs Hospital & Medical Ctr Teaching hospital · AZ $375,250 14 payments
Products the payments named General payments · program year 2025
  1. Da Vinci Surgical System Surgery $50,329,561 72% · 14,865 recipients
  2. Davinci XI Surgery $18,327,634 26% · 3,732 recipients
  3. Da Vinci SP Surgery $1,342,552 2% · 403 recipients
  4. Ion Surgery $39,490 <1% · 20 recipients

Each share is of this company’s general payments naming a product in 2025. A payment can name up to five products, so these amounts overlap.

Specialties paid General payments · program year 2025
  1. Surgery $23,661,254 42% · 5,342 practitioners
  2. Pulmonary Disease Internal Medicine $7,272,362 13% · 1,235 practitioners
  3. Obstetrics & Gynecology $5,809,597 10% · 1,740 practitioners
  4. Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) $4,823,996 8% · 760 practitioners
  5. Colon & Rectal Surgery $2,758,459 5% · 507 practitioners

The top 5 of 149 specialties; each share is of this company’s general payments to practitioners with a specialty in 2025. Each practitioner is counted under their primary specialty.

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Where the money went General payments · program year 2025
  1. Texas $8,571,083 12% · 1,347 recipients
  2. California $8,284,017 12% · 1,689 recipients
  3. Florida $5,861,583 8% · 1,503 recipients
  4. New York $3,510,555 5% · 837 recipients
  5. Illinois $3,319,488 5% · 617 recipients

The top 5 of 54 states; each share is of this company’s general payments in 2025 where a state was reported.

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What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Education $248,503,367 101,326 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $49,689,799 227,181 payments
  3. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $45,138,553 22,997 payments
  4. Long term medical supply or device loan $39,921,481 3,206 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $21,468,173 304,895 payments
  6. Space rental or facility fees (teaching hospital only) $15,413,430 438 payments
  7. Gift $3,154,892 7,012 payments
  8. Consulting Fee $2,425,470 567 payments
  9. Grant $1,121,466 81 payments
  10. Current or prospective ownership or investment interest $899,020 8 payments
Companies with a similar name General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. CA, United States $0

Grouped by name only. CMS publishes no corporate ownership, so a shared name does not mean a shared parent.

668,025 general

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Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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