Has John Lin, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $35,610 in general payments to John Lin, MD across 231 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Lin, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Lin, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Lin, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Fresno, CANPI 1992961270

Payments from drug & device makers

$35,610in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 231 payments — averaging $154.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$18K
Angiodynamics, Inc.$6K
Edwards Lifesciences$2K
Abbott$2K
Atricure, Inc.$2K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
plus $6K from 26 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$14,65041%
Travel & lodging$7,79422%
Food & beverage$13,12737%
Education$390%

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
Intuitive Surgical	49	$17,663
Angiodynamics, Inc.	21	$5,617
Edwards Lifesciences	12	$1,789
Abbott	34	$1,606
Atricure, Inc.	30	$1,586
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	11	$1,515
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas	13	$1,443
Abiomed	14	$1,135
Zimmer Biomet	12	$999
Medtronic(2 entities)	4	$342
Bolton Medical Inc	2	$234
Baxter Healthcare	3	$188
Inari Medical, Inc.	2	$185
LSI Solutions Inc	1	$164
Polynovo North America LLC	1	$155
AstraZeneca	2	$155
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$148
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$118
Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.	1	$109
Werfen USA LLC	1	$91
BD	2	$75
Davol Inc.	2	$59
Stryker	2	$49
Octapharma USA, Inc.	1	$34
Merck	1	$30
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$23
Smith+Nephew	1	$22
Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.	1	$20
AbbVie	1	$16
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$16
Johnson & Johnson	1	$14
Conmed Corporation	1	$11

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.

DA VINCI SP$9,650
Da Vinci Surgical System$6,796
AngioVac$4,502
GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,196
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$862
Single Use Guide Sheath Kit$678
SINGLE USE SUCTION VALVE (Sterile)$515
AlphaVac$509
AdvantageRib$473
Impella$462
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$299
Epic$284
2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$274
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$264
Penditure$170
COR KNOT$164
Grafts$154
CoreValve Evolut$137
SternaLock 360$130
Epic Stented Tissue Valve$128

How this compares

$35,610 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$153,393

Medicare patients

222

Services billed

450

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
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	13	$159
Metoprolol Tartrate	14	$47

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Fresno

Shamsuddin KhwajaFresno$187K
Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$1.4M
Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$963K
Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$901K
Michael FischbeinPalo Alto$899K
Jay LeeLos Angeles$856K

See the full list for California →

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.

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