Has Lakshmikumar Pillai, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $19,848 in general payments to Lakshmikumar Pillai, MD across 117 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 Lakshmikumar Pillai, 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 Lakshmikumar Pillai, 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.

Lakshmikumar Pillai, MD

Vascular Surgery · Morgantown, WVNPI 1316045966

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (34.6%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 56.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,193, 6.8 times the $1,492 reported in 2019. Among vascular surgery clinicians in WV with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$19,848in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 117 payments — averaging $169.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$11K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
Medtronic$2K
Terumo Medical Corporation$1K
Silk Road Medical, Inc.$832
Cook Medical LLC$416
plus $840 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$6,31332%
Travel & lodging$6,63933%
Food & beverage$6,87135%
Education$260%

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
Boston Scientific	32	$11,191
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	33	$3,494
Medtronic(2 entities)	17	$1,701
Terumo Medical Corporation	11	$1,375
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	6	$832
Cook Medical LLC	7	$416
Endologix LLC	3	$379
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	5	$299
Shockwave Medical, Inc	2	$147
Johnson & Johnson	1	$15

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

$19,848 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 32 vascular surgery providers in West Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$127,792

Medicare patients

914

Services billed

1,347

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	36	$186

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other vascular surgery in Morgantown

Pamela ZimmermanMorgantown$11K
Ibrahim Abou SalehMorgantown$9K
Alexandre D'audiffretMorgantown$2K
Carol WhiteMorgantown$2K
Shadi Abu HalimahCharleston$38K
Dean WickelTriadelphia$30K
John CampbellCharleston$12K
Andrew LeeCharleston$11K
Vardhan ReddyWeirton$11K
John AdeniyiBridgeport$10K

See the full list for West Virginia →

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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