Lamont Cardon, MD
Hand Surgery · Berkeley, CANPI 1245263789
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,200 of the $1,489 with a category attached, or 80.6%. Evolution Surgical, Inc accounts for 83.6% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,254 and has fallen 88.4% since, to $146 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $1,876.
Across 10 payments — averaging $148.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Evolution Surgical, Inc$1K
- Trice Medical, Inc.$102
- Bioventus LLC$68
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$37
- Alafair Biosciences, Inc.$24
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$14
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$28919%
- Education$1,20081%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 2 | $1,244 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $68 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $37 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,489 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 249 hand 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 32 | $373 |
| Celecoxib | 11 | $276 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 93 | $268 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 29 | $267 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Berkeley
- Steven ShinLos Angeles$2.8M
- Amy LaddStanford$1.4M
- Emilie CheungStanford$1.1M
- Andrew HartmanOceanside$957K
- Nancy LynchSan Mateo$862K
- Jeffrey YaoRedwood City$622K
- Prosper BenhaimLos Angeles$492K
- Wayne PanOakland$423K
- Nathan HoekzemaClovis$400K
- Robin KamalStanford$343K
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.