David Lippie, MD
Surgery · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1558362319
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 87 payments — averaging $65.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$4K
- Intuitive Surgical$665
- Johnson & Johnson$251
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$119
- AbbVie$119
- Davol Inc.$116
- plus $487 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,31341%
- Food & beverage$3,32559%
- Education$391%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 30 | $3,920 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 15 | $665 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $251 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $119 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $119 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $116 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $64 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $55 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $45 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $36 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $25 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $15 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$1,896
- BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$363
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$271
- Balloon Sheath with Dilator$242
- BIO-A Hernia Plug$231
- Enseal X1$117
- Echelon Flex$117
- Da Vinci Surgical System$116
How this compares
$5,677 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 524 surgery providers in Indiana.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 77 | $302 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Fort Wayne
- Patricia ClarkFort Wayne$82K
- Kingsley OkaiFort Wayne$33K
- Bryon StephensFort Wayne$33K
- Lauren KopickyFort Wayne$33K
- Lisa SchomogyiFort Wayne$22K
- Emanuel NearingFort Wayne$15K
- Michael GrabowskiFort Wayne$14K
- Sean KarrFort Wayne$14K
- Paul SzotekIndianapolis$2.4M
- Lewis JacobsonIndianapolis$761K
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.