RxDoctor Payments Data

Geoffrey Lam, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1619156205

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $9,981 of the $16,585 with a category attached, or 60.2%. AstraZeneca accounts for 64.7% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $9,768 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $46 in 2025.

$16,585in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $535.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$11K
  • Intuitive Surgical$5K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$300
  • Medtronic$92
  • Baxter Healthcare$80
  • Edwards Lifesciences$72
  • plus $215 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$9,98160%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$5,95036%
  • Food & beverage$6284%
  • Education$260%

General payments by program year

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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.

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.

How this compares

$16,585 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$69,226
Medicare patients
55
Services billed
162

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.

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