Eric Lederman, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1255368973
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (37.3%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 40.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,378 and has fallen 61.2% since, to $2,475 in 2023.
Across 43 payments — averaging $253.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Medtronic$3K
- Covidien LP$1K
- Stryker$561
- Johnson & Johnson$411
- BD$373
- plus $905 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,07437%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2753%
- Travel & lodging$1,42113%
- Food & beverage$1,09310%
- Education$4,00037%
- Gifts$490%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $4,360 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $3,288 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $1,013 |
| Stryker | 2 | $561 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $411 |
| BD | 1 | $373 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $300 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $141 |
| Davol Inc. | 6 | $122 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $100 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,300
- Sonicision$525
- 1588 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$521
- LigaSure$488
- GATTEX$125
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$121
- ECHELON ENDOPATH Stapler$109
How this compares
$10,911 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 36 colon & rectal surgery providers in Missouri.
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 colon & rectal surgery in Saint Louis
- Lawrence MendelowSaint Louis$234K
- Paul WiseSaint Louis$24K
- Donald SummersSaint Louis$22K
- Steven HuntSaint Louis$17K
- Tatiana Ramirez DominguezSaint Louis$12K
- Patrick ChizekSaint Louis$8K
- Alyssa WaitSaint Louis$6K
- Kathryn GalieSaint Louis$6K
- Sean GlasgowSaint Louis$6K
- William ChapmanSaint Louis$3K
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.