Has Albert Lin, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $47,927 in general payments to Albert Lin, MD across 172 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Albert Lin, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Albert Lin, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Albert Lin, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Chicago, ILNPI 1508820218

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (55.3%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 59.5% of the total.

$47,927in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 172 payments — averaging $278.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$28K
Abbott$7K
Medtronic$4K
Philips North America LLC$4K
Cook Incorporated$3K
Biotronik Inc.$917
plus $643 from 9 others

$438,227in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 131 payments — averaging $3345.24 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medtronic$255K
Boston Scientific$160K
Atricure, Inc.$24K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$7,05015%
Speaking & faculty fees$26,52555%
Travel & lodging$7,74616%
Food & beverage$6,57614%
Education$300%

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
Boston Scientific	59	$28,495
Abbott	23	$6,589
Medtronic(2 entities)	50	$4,163
Philips North America LLC	13	$3,846
Cook Incorporated	1	$3,275
Biotronik Inc.	8	$917
Biosense Webster, Inc.	7	$223
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	2	$101
Acutus Medical, Inc.	1	$81
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	3	$66
Abiomed	1	$59
Cook Medical LLC	1	$50
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	1	$26
Catheter Precision Inc.	1	$20
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$16

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.

How this compares

$47,927 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 158 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$229,232

Medicare patients

735

Services billed

2,333

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
EliquisApixaban	239	$336,712
XareltoRivaroxaban	66	$78,385
MultaqDronedarone Hcl	30	$47,552
Dofetilide	23	$11,909
Metoprolol Succinate	182	$3,370
Amiodarone Hcl	69	$1,419
Flecainide Acetate	34	$1,336
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	33	$658
SotalolSotalol Hcl	13	$334
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	20	$250
Metoprolol Tartrate	21	$158
Lisinopril	12	$97
Carvedilol	12	$39

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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