Karen Lucas
Acute Care · Philadelphia, PANPI 1043446065
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,049 of the $3,391 with a category attached, or 89.9%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biotronik Inc. at 42.8% of the total. Among acute care clinicians in PA 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 68 payments — averaging $49.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biotronik Inc.$1K
- Abbott$882
- Medtronic$574
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$136
- Atricure, Inc.$128
- Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$87
- plus $132 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,04990%
- Education$34210%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biotronik Inc. | 25 | $1,451 |
| Abbott | 14 | $882 |
| Medtronic | 17 | $574 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 4 | $87 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $48 |
| Procyrion, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $22 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- BioMonitor$847
- Carto 3$545
- AMPLATZER$187
- Confirm Rx$162
- Rivacor$149
- Solia$149
- Edora$149
- Acticor$149
- Pentaray Nav$136
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$128
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$119
- Fortify Assura$112
How this compares
$3,391 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 872 acute care providers in Pennsylvania.
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 | 72 | $80,453 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 18 | $21,887 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 11 | $6,191 |
| Dofetilide | 14 | $2,546 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 73 | $1,874 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 41 | $1,833 |
| Mexiletine Hcl | 11 | $1,436 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 35 | $901 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 22 | $565 |
| Losartan Potassium | 16 | $324 |
| Atenolol | 19 | $279 |
| Carvedilol | 38 | $219 |
| Furosemide | 13 | $81 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 12 | $73 |
| Lisinopril | 11 | $57 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Philadelphia
- Kathryn GreenPhiladelphia$92K
- Caroline PratzPhiladelphia$77K
- Rebecca MarcantuonoPhiladelphia$17K
- Stephanie TothPhiladelphia$17K
- David JonesPhiladelphia$11K
- Colleen KollerPhiladelphia$11K
- Maura LevandowskiPhiladelphia$9K
- Christopher SipalaPhiladelphia$9K
- Amaryah YaegerPhiladelphia$7K
- Shane RudolphPhiladelphia$6K
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.