RxDoctor Payments Data

Ivy Lewis, MD

Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1336535301

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $10,000 of the $13,086 with a category attached, or 76.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.1% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $10,551 and has fallen 98.4% since, to $165 in 2025.

$13,086in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $545.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$13K
  • Stryker$162
  • Vertex$125
  • Innovation Technologies Inc$40
  • Boston Scientific$22
  • Sirius Medical Systems$17
  • plus $13 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$2,42119%
  • Food & beverage$6655%
  • Education$10,00076%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Intuitive Surgical18$12,707
Stryker1$162
Vertex1$125
Innovation Technologies Inc1$40
Boston Scientific1$22
Sirius Medical Systems1$17
Medtronic1$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.

How this compares

$13,086 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 377 surgery providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$49,460
Medicare patients
120
Services billed
241

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg11$179
Ibuprofen33$65
Oxycodone Hcl30$59

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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