John Lipham, MD
Surgery · Los Angeles, CANPI 1639100845
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $816,658 of the $941,957 with a category attached, or 86.7%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 57.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $344,112 and has fallen 78.8% since, to $72,966 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 606 payments — averaging $1554.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$537K
- Johnson & Johnson$342K
- Enterra Medical, Inc.$25K
- Laborie Medical Technologies Corp.$20K
- Colorado Therapeutics LLC$7K
- Medtronic$5K
- plus $6K from 14 others
Across 23 payments — averaging $2117.83 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.
- Johnson & Johnson$49K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$816,65887%
- Speaking & faculty fees$15,3122%
- Travel & lodging$92,62010%
- Food & beverage$14,3502%
- Education$3,0000%
- Gifts$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 384 | $536,652 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 146 | $341,923 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 13 | $25,270 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 15 | $19,822 |
| Colorado Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $7,000 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $5,291 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 18 | $4,746 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 4 | $333 |
| Covidien LP | 5 | $313 |
| Evoendo, Inc | 1 | $171 |
| Ambu Inc. | 2 | $145 |
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 2 | $67 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $32 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $24 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| Vioptix Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 1 | $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.
- LINX Reflux Management System$471,245
- HARMONIC Product Family$225,054
- PROLENE Polypropylene Suture$224,282
- Harmonic$45,530
- Enseal$45,530
- alpHaONE$19,560
- XI_S+$7,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,375
- Beacon$1,250
- STRATAFIX$772
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$772
- NEUWAVE Flex Microwave Ablation System$566
- ESOPHYX$227
- Signia$149
- Bravo$124
How this compares
$941,957 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.
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.
Other surgery in Los Angeles
- Caitlin HoughtonLos Angeles$569K
- Nikolai BildzukewiczLos Angeles$319K
- Namir KatkhoudaLos Angeles$187K
- Jonathan SalutaLos Angeles$150K
- Raul RosenthalLos Angeles$147K
- Timothy ChuterSan Francisco$8.8M
- Santiago HorganSan Diego$2.8M
- Rock LiuHayward$1.6M
- David LouriePasadena$1.4M
- Andrea PakulaThousand Oaks$1.4M
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.