Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

KARA N SAPERSTON

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Urology

NPI
1396931010
CMS profile
716853
Location
MERIDIAN, ID

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$3,750.29

  • Reported across 70 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$309.35

6 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $309.35 6

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $309.35 6

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $244.28 5
PY2019 $361.02 17
PY2020 $87.92 4
PY2021 $422.24 12
PY2022 $2,010.23 20
PY2023 $315.25 6
PY2024 $309.35 6

Payment records · PY2024 (6)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $38.72 03/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137151012 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $12.98 06/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137274189 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $42.03 07/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137242732 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $108.85 08/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137118488 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $85.38 09/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137253315 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $21.39 10/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137162424 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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