Jefferson Lyons, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Columbus, OHNPI 1508085820
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (53.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 52.8% of the total.
Across 277 payments — averaging $259.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$38K
- Medtronic$19K
- Atricure, Inc.$7K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$6K
- Artivion, Inc.$636
- Davol Inc.$243
- plus $781 from 11 others
Across 23 payments — averaging $4411.70 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$66K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$28K
- Edwards Lifesciences$8K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$38,55654%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,00011%
- Travel & lodging$15,77922%
- Food & beverage$9,55113%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 61 | $37,979 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 107 | $18,853 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 44 | $7,306 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 40 | $6,087 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 4 | $636 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $243 |
| Centerline Biomedical Inc. | 1 | $173 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $160 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $123 |
| Abbott | 3 | $98 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $59 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $50 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $38 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $30 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $19 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$25,949
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$9,615
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$9,468
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$8,423
- CoreValve Evolut$8,109
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$4,543
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$2,685
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$2,025
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$2,025
- Product in Development$1,265
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$958
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$583
- PROGEL$243
- Valiant Captivia$183
- Avalus$178
- IOPS MOBILE CART$173
- IOPS Tracking Pad$173
- IOPS Guidewire$173
- Simple curve catheter$173
- Reverse curve catheter$173
How this compares
$71,886 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Warfarin Sodium | 14 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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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.