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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $14,297 in general payments to Andrew Lin, MD across 127 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 Andrew 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 Andrew 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.

Andrew Lin, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Milwaukee, WINPI 1760864961

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $9,097 of the $14,297 with a category attached, or 63.6%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 46.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,470, more than ten times the $466 reported in 2019.

$14,297in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 127 payments — averaging $112.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$7K
Abiomed$4K
Bolton Medical Inc$2K
Atricure, Inc.$1K
Edwards Lifesciences$169
Medtronic$150
plus $794 from 12 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$9,09764%
Food & beverage$5,19936%

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
Abbott	46	$6,609
Abiomed	43	$3,848
Bolton Medical Inc	5	$1,582
Atricure, Inc.	10	$1,144
Edwards Lifesciences	2	$169
Medtronic	4	$150
Acell, Inc.	2	$145
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$133
Pfizer	1	$112
Merck	2	$112
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$100
TEI Medical Inc.	2	$64
Johnson & Johnson	2	$55
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$18
Boston Scientific	1	$16
Baxter Healthcare	1	$15
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	1	$13
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$11

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.

THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$5,508
Impella$2,904
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$490
TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$438
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$293
Epic$169
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$145
CARDIOMEMS$141
VYNDAQEL$112

How this compares

$14,297 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 97 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$86,438

Medicare patients

Services billed

236

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
Warfarin Sodium	12	$52
Metoprolol Tartrate	11	$27
Amoxicillin	12	$11

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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