George Weiss, MD
Surgery · Lexington, KYNPI 1679614408
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 77 payments — averaging $151.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Standard Bariatrics, Inc.$6K
- Baxter Healthcare$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$768
- Covidien LP$699
- Medtronic$278
- TELA Bio, Inc.$170
- plus $675 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,24453%
- Food & beverage$5,44647%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 7 | $5,759 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 33 | $3,340 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 6 | $768 |
| Covidien LP | 7 | $699 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $278 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $170 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $163 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $75 |
| GT Metabolic Solutions Inc | 1 | $68 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $47 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $38 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $28 |
| Vertex | 1 | $27 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Conmed Corporation | 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.
- TITAN SGS STANDARD GASTRIC STAPLER$4,023
- TISSEEL$1,232
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$1,176
- Da Vinci Surgical System$569
- Signia$401
- PHASIX$129
How this compares
$11,690 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 377 surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 13 | $5,893 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 15 | $88 |
| Omeprazole | 12 | $49 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 32 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Lexington
- Joseph KimLexington$1.6M
- John RothLexington$1.6M
- Rachel MathisLexington$26K
- Colby AtkinsLexington$20K
- Michael TottenLexington$19K
- William InabnetLexington$19K
- Joshua SteinerLexington$16K
- Gustavo HuertaLexington$15K
- Matthew BaileyLexington$13K
- Eric SmithAshland$1.1M
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.