Christopher Lesar, MD
Vascular Surgery · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1285628917
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 372 payments — averaging $859.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$82K
- Terumo Medical Corporation$73K
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$56K
- Philips North America LLC$55K
- Johnson & Johnson$24K
- Abbott$15K
- plus $15K from 24 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 66 | $82,439 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 68 | $72,623 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 69 | $55,513 |
| Philips North America LLC | 47 | $55,457 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 27 | $23,726 |
| Abbott | 15 | $15,134 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 20 | $7,481 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 3 | $2,143 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $1,541 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 4 | $1,041 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 8 | $715 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $393 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 3 | $291 |
| BD | 1 | $203 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $152 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $133 |
| Limflow Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Stryker | 4 | $101 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $59 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $48 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $47 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 3 | $46 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Avinger Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$319,618 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 117 vascular surgery providers in Tennessee.
Medicare billing
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.
Other vascular surgery in Chattanooga
- Mark FugateChattanooga$178K
- William HarrisChattanooga$124K
- Charles JoelsChattanooga$96K
- Larry SprouseChattanooga$44K
- Neelima KatraguntaChattanooga$28K
- Karen RudolphChattanooga$18K
- Amith ReddyChattanooga$11K
- Daniel ClairNashville$1.5M
- Anton Dias PereraGermantown$832K
- Thomas NaslundNashville$566K
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.