Healthcare provider profile · identity verified

Paul Cesanek, M.D.

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians|Surgery · ALLENTOWN, PA · NPI 1497928857

Profile state: payments and partd Open Payments: 2025 Medicare Part D: 2024 Last identity check: 2026-08-10 Page data build: 2026-08-12

Verified facts

What the public records show

CMS Open Payments records show Paul Cesanek, M.D. received $198,045.76 in general payments during 2025 across 200 reported records.

INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. accounted for 100.0% of that reported general-payment amount.

The Open Payments records used for this analysis explicitly named 1 associated product.

These records do not establish that a payment influenced prescribing or medical care.

Payment overview · 2025

General Payments

$198,045.76

200 reported records · 1 companies

Separate record types

Research & Ownership

Research Payments (direct recipient): not present in the loaded data

Associated Research Funding (for example, named PI): not present in the loaded data

Ownership / Investment: not present in the loaded data

These categories are never added into the General Payments headline. Associated research funding must not be described as money the doctor personally received unless the source record supports that conclusion.

Who paid this doctor?

Companies in 2025 General Payments

Reported company	Canonical company	Amount	Share	Records	Year
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.	Unresolved — no canonical attribution shown	$198,045.76	100.0%	200	2025

What were the payments for?

Payment categories

Category	Amount	Records
Education	$133,562.50	62
Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program	$44,375.00	17
Travel and Lodging	$13,766.34	67
Food and Beverage	$6,341.92	54

A meal, consulting fee, royalty, and travel payment describe different kinds of reported relationships and should not be interpreted as equivalent.

Analysis 1 · Payment-linked products

Products named in Open Payments records

Reported product	Type	Reported company	Related amount*	Records	Year
Da Vinci Surgical System Normalized: da vinci surgical system	Device	INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.	$198,045.76	200	2025
Source payment records 2025-01-07 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $16.31 · Open Payments source 2025-01-07 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $2.69 · Open Payments source 2025-01-07 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $7.92 · Open Payments source 2025-01-07 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $14.42 · Open Payments source 2025-01-08 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $5,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-01-10 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $10,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-01-10 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-01-21 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $356.39 · Open Payments source 2025-01-21 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $19.00 · Open Payments source 2025-01-29 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $150.00 · Open Payments source 2025-01-29 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-01-29 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $150.00 · Open Payments source 2025-01-29 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-02-01 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $358.56 · Open Payments source 2025-02-12 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $625.00 · Open Payments source 2025-02-14 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-02-26 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-02-26 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-02-26 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $625.00 · Open Payments source 2025-02-26 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-02-26 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $150.00 · Open Payments source 2025-03-04 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $2.45 · Open Payments source 2025-03-05 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-03-06 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $19.00 · Open Payments source 2025-03-17 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $19.00 · Open Payments source 2025-03-17 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $220.29 · Open Payments source 2025-03-17 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $20.99 · Open Payments source 2025-03-17 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $237.83 · Open Payments source 2025-03-19 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $625.00 · Open Payments source 2025-03-21 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-03-21 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $10,625.00 · Open Payments source 2025-03-21 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-03-22 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $6.00 · Open Payments source 2025-03-25 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $165.39 · Open Payments source 2025-03-26 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $150.00 · Open Payments source 2025-03-26 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-03-26 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-03-29 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $390.82 · Open Payments source 2025-04-02 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-02 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-02 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-02 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-02 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-05 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $159.84 · Open Payments source 2025-04-08 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $30.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-08 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $141.53 · Open Payments source 2025-04-08 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $11.99 · Open Payments source 2025-04-08 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $493.25 · Open Payments source 2025-04-08 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $19.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-09 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-09 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $150.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-11 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-11 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-11 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-15 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $318.18 · Open Payments source 2025-04-15 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $30.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-16 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $231.92 · Open Payments source 2025-04-16 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $154.96 · Open Payments source 2025-04-16 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $223.82 · Open Payments source 2025-04-17 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $399.26 · Open Payments source 2025-04-18 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-18 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-23 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-23 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-04-25 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $5,300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-05-02 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-05-07 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $391.33 · Open Payments source 2025-05-07 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $625.00 · Open Payments source 2025-05-21 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-05-28 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $625.00 · Open Payments source 2025-05-28 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-06-04 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-06-17 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $6.09 · Open Payments source 2025-06-17 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $23.15 · Open Payments source 2025-06-17 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $92.25 · Open Payments source 2025-06-24 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $3.87 · Open Payments source 2025-06-25 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-06-25 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $625.00 · Open Payments source 2025-07-11 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-07-11 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-07-11 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-07-15 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $30.00 · Open Payments source 2025-07-15 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $19.00 · Open Payments source 2025-07-15 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $6.00 · Open Payments source 2025-07-15 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $6.00 · Open Payments source 2025-07-15 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $301.66 · Open Payments source 2025-07-15 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $499.77 · Open Payments source 2025-07-17 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $30.00 · Open Payments source 2025-07-17 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $870.99 · Open Payments source 2025-07-23 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $625.00 · Open Payments source 2025-07-25 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-07-29 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $16.99 · Open Payments source 2025-07-30 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $28.98 · Open Payments source 2025-07-30 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $143.00 · Open Payments source 2025-07-30 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-07-30 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $193.22 · Open Payments source 2025-08-05 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $98.53 · Open Payments source 2025-08-05 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $2.21 · Open Payments source 2025-08-06 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-08-06 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $206.41 · Open Payments source 2025-08-11 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $6.00 · Open Payments source 2025-08-13 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $240.49 · Open Payments source 2025-08-13 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-08-15 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $625.00 · Open Payments source 2025-08-20 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-08-20 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $150.00 · Open Payments source 2025-08-22 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-08-22 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-08-22 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-08-22 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $625.00 · Open Payments source 2025-08-26 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $14.35 · Open Payments source 2025-09-03 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-09-04 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $176.49 · Open Payments source 2025-09-05 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-09-10 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $30.00 · Open Payments source 2025-09-10 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $811.04 · Open Payments source 2025-09-10 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-09-10 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $150.00 · Open Payments source 2025-09-12 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-09-12 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $625.00 · Open Payments source 2025-09-18 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $102.86 · Open Payments source 2025-09-19 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $153.47 · Open Payments source 2025-09-24 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $28.98 · Open Payments source 2025-09-28 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $286.00 · Open Payments source 2025-09-30 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $14.79 · Open Payments source 2025-10-01 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $625.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-03 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $10,625.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-03 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-08 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-08 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-08 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-10 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $30.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-10 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $443.46 · Open Payments source 2025-10-10 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $6.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-14 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $125.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-14 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1.80 · Open Payments source 2025-10-14 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $13.43 · Open Payments source 2025-10-14 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $2.10 · Open Payments source 2025-10-14 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $9.49 · Open Payments source 2025-10-16 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $388.40 · Open Payments source 2025-10-20 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $836.37 · Open Payments source 2025-10-20 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $19.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-22 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $203.86 · Open Payments source 2025-10-22 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $272.86 · Open Payments source 2025-10-22 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $625.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-24 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $30.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-24 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $987.37 · Open Payments source 2025-10-24 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $150.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-24 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $161.84 · Open Payments source 2025-10-24 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-28 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-28 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-28 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-28 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-28 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-28 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-28 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $220.46 · Open Payments source 2025-10-28 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $73.22 · Open Payments source 2025-10-29 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-29 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $28.98 · Open Payments source 2025-10-29 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-29 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $286.00 · Open Payments source 2025-10-31 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $269.54 · Open Payments source 2025-11-03 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $6.00 · Open Payments source 2025-11-05 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-11-05 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-11-05 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $150.00 · Open Payments source 2025-11-05 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-11-05 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $2,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-11-05 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-11-07 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-11-09 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $6.00 · Open Payments source 2025-11-11 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $240.35 · Open Payments source 2025-11-11 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $134.03 · Open Payments source 2025-11-12 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-11-12 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $300.00 · Open Payments source 2025-11-12 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-11-17 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $216.40 · Open Payments source 2025-11-17 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $40.01 · Open Payments source 2025-11-18 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $113.40 · Open Payments source 2025-11-18 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4.97 · Open Payments source 2025-11-19 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $178.40 · Open Payments source 2025-11-21 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,062.50 · Open Payments source 2025-11-25 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $100.00 · Open Payments source 2025-11-25 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $132.02 · Open Payments source 2025-11-25 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $110.60 · Open Payments source 2025-11-25 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-11-25 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-12-06 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $6.00 · Open Payments source 2025-12-09 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $7.99 · Open Payments source 2025-12-09 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $7.50 · Open Payments source 2025-12-09 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $186.82 · Open Payments source 2025-12-09 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $31.07 · Open Payments source 2025-12-10 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-12-10 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $1,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-12-12 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $625.00 · Open Payments source 2025-12-15 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $6.00 · Open Payments source 2025-12-18 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $166.79 · Open Payments source 2025-12-19 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $4,000.00 · Open Payments source 2025-12-19 · INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. · $150.00 · Open Payments source

* Product-associated amounts are non-additive because one payment record may name more than one product.

These products were named on specific Open Payments records. A named product does not show that the payment influenced treatment or prescribing.

Public prescribing for products named in payments

No exact normalized or approved-alias overlap was found in the loaded Part D year. This does not mean the doctor never prescribed the product.

The presence of the same drug in both datasets does not show that a payment caused or influenced a prescription.

Analysis 2 · Same-company prescribing overlap

Drugs reported in other payments from the same company that also appear in Medicare Part D

This analysis is independent from products named on this doctor’s individual payment records. A row appears only when the exact Open Payments reporting entity paid this doctor, that same reporting entity reported the drug or biological on at least 10 loaded General Payment records involving at least 2 distinct recipient NPIs, and this doctor has the same non-generic brand in public Part D data. This does not mean the company owns or manufactures the drug.

None of this doctor’s payer companies has same-entity product evidence that passes the publication threshold. The site does not infer company ownership, affiliates, or generic manufacturers.

These facts do not show that a payment was for the drug, that the company owns or manufactures the drug, or that a payment caused or influenced prescribing.

Public Medicare Part D data

Provider-and-drug rows loaded for 2024

Brand	Generic	Claims	Beneficiaries
Pantoprazole Sodium	Pantoprazole Sodium	17	suppressed

Timeline

Payment and prescribing data by year

Open Payments and Medicare Part D may refer to different years. They are shown separately rather than aligned as if they describe the same period.

Year	General Payments	Main payer	Explicit products	Company overlaps	Part D coverage
2025	$198,045.76 · 200 records	INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.	Da Vinci Surgical System	—	—
2024	—	—	—	—	Complete

Questions to ask

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Sources and limitations

How to read this page

Payment and Medicare prescribing data can cover different years; every comparison shows both years explicitly.
Part D does not represent a doctor’s entire practice; it excludes many patients and is subject to CMS public-release thresholds.
Company–drug relationships must have an auditable source, a precise relationship type, and a valid evidence period. Unresolved mappings are not published.
Generic drug claims are not attributed to a specific manufacturer without manufacturer-level evidence.
When a source extract is incomplete, missing rows are never treated as proof of no payments or no prescriptions.

Loaded source releases

Dataset	Year	Publication	Source
CMS Open Payments — General Payments	2025	2026-06-30	Original source
Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug	2024	2026-05-06	Original source
NPPES Data Dissemination V2	current / reference data	2026-08-10	Original source

Methodology version: 2.1

Editorial template version: 2.4

Product contract version: 2.0

Schema version: 0.7.0

Page data build: 2026-08-12T23:34:59.370714+00:00

Publication policy: eligible for indexing after public-launch controls are enabled

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