Fred Lam
Neurological Surgery · Stanford, CANPI 1316271802
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 54 payments — averaging $105.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Icotec Medical Inc.$1K
- Zap Surgical Systems, Inc.$554
- Accuray Incorporated$240
- Baxter Healthcare$129
- Abbott$72
- plus $59 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$3005%
- Travel & lodging$3,03554%
- Food & beverage$2,33541%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 32 | $3,452 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 12 | $1,164 |
| Zap Surgical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $554 |
| Accuray Incorporated | 2 | $240 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $129 |
| Abbott | 2 | $72 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $21 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$1,598
- STEALTH AUTOGUIDE SYSTEM$859
- icotec BlackArmor Spine System$590
- ZAP-X MV IMAGER$554
- ZAP-X TREATMENT PLANNING SOFTWARE$554
- ZAP-X TREATMENT DELIVERY SOFTWARE$554
- ZAP-X RADIOSURGERY SYSTEM$554
- VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM 6.0, SCREW, Carbon/PEEK, POLYAX., FEN., O 5.5 X 45 MM$245
- VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM, ROD, Carbon/PEEK, CURVED, 6.0 R450 X 200 MM$245
- KONG-TL VBR E, EXPANDABLE BODY, L, 19 MM X 27 - 37 MM$245
- KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, ROUND, L AND SCREW, 12 X 43 MM$245
- KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, RECTANGULAR, M AND SCREW, 12 X 33 MM$245
- TomoTherapy System$145
- FLOSEAL$129
- TISSEEL$129
- Vader Pedicle System$111
How this compares
$5,670 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 17 | $126 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Stanford
- Stephen RyuStanford$1.1M
- Vivek BuchStanford$807K
- Michael LimStanford$627K
- Stefan MindeaStanford$615K
- Geoffrey ManleySan Francisco$24.9M
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Jamshid SalehRedding$4.1M
- Bruce McCormackSan Francisco$3.9M
- Andrew SchreiberSanta Ana$3.9M
- Larry KhooLos Angeles$3M
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.