Lamont Paxton, MD
Vascular Surgery · San Leandro, CANPI 1033139043
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,524 of the $4,289 with a category attached, or 82.2%. Medtronic accounts for 62.7% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $3,945.
Across 105 payments — averaging $40.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$314
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$266
- Boston Scientific$265
- Organogenesis Inc.$133
- Penumbra, Inc.$128
- plus $495 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1203%
- Travel & lodging$64515%
- Food & beverage$3,52482%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 69 | $2,688 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 6 | $314 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $266 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $265 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $133 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $102 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Abbott | 3 | $68 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 3 | $64 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $61 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Venclose Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$4,289 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 519 vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 32 | $173 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $77 |
| Prednisone | 15 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in San Leandro
- Varinder PhangurehSan Leandro$42K
- Son DuongFountain Valley$503K
- Venita ChandraPalo Alto$488K
- Sukgu HanLos Angeles$477K
- Leigh Ann ObanionFresno$469K
- Trevor DerderianRancho Mirage$359K
- Karthikeshwar KasirajanPalo Alto$349K
- Johnathon RolloLos Angeles$337K
- Melissa LojaFairfield$272K
- Jason LeePalo Alto$228K
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.