Industry payments · Intuitive Surgical · Iowa · 2025

What did Intuitive Surgical pay clinicians in Iowa?

In 2025, Intuitive Surgical reported $304K in general payments to 140 Iowa clinicians across 670 payments, per CMS Open Payments data (excluding one-time buyouts). The typical (median) clinician on the list received $530. Below: where the money went, and who it went to by specialty and city. No clinician is named on this page; the ranked, named list is what the app is for.

$304K
General payments, excl. buyouts (2025)
140
Iowa clinicians paid
$530
Median clinician total
↓ 26%
Dollars vs 2024
The breakdown

Where the money went.

General payments by category, and the products named on them. A payment is a disclosed relationship, not evidence a clinician uses any product.

Payment mix in Iowa

Education · 52 clinicians$215K
Travel & lodging · 65 clinicians$56K
Food & beverage · 119 clinicians$22K
Speaker / services · 4 clinicians$11K

Top products named on payments

Da Vinci Surgical System$223K
DAVINCI XI$78K
DA VINCI SP$3K

Product dollars span all payment types, and a payment naming several products counts toward each, so these rows don't sum to the total above.

The names behind these 140 clinicians are in the same public record. Prospect 811 puts them one search away: every Iowa clinician Intuitive Surgical paid, ranked by dollars, cross-linked to what each one actually bills Medicare, with specialty and phone number.

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Who gets paid

The specialties and cities.

Top specialties paid

Surgery Physician58 clinicians
Pulmonary Disease Physician14 clinicians
Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician11 clinicians
Urology Physician7 clinicians
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program6 clinicians

Where the paid clinicians are

Des Moines35 clinicians
Iowa City32 clinicians
West Des Moines11 clinicians
Cedar Rapids11 clinicians
Davenport8 clinicians
Where these numbers come from. Everything on this page is computed from CMS's public Open Payments (Sunshine Act) data for program year 2025. Federal law requires manufacturers and group purchasing organizations to report payments and transfers of value to physicians and other covered clinicians; CMS publishes the records each year. A reported payment is a disclosed financial relationship required by law. It is not evidence of anything improper, and it says nothing about whether a clinician uses, prefers, or prescribes any product. Totals are general payments only and exclude acquisition buyouts and debt forgiveness (one-time events, not working relationships). Research dollars are shown separately as associated funding: money tied to a study on which a clinician is named as recipient or principal investigator. It funds the study, not the person. Product rows count a payment toward every product named on it, across all payment types, so product rows do not add up to the total. Intuitive Surgical figures combine the 2 corporate entities that report under it, normalized so the whole company shows up as one. Clinicians whose federal enrollment record no longer lists a US practice state are not in state rollups. Prospect 811 organizes public data; it doesn't add to or alter it. Not affiliated with or endorsed by CMS. Full detail on the data page.

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