Laura Frye, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1518197417
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $39,748 of the $65,922 with a category attached, or 60.3%. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Olympus America Inc. at 37.6% of the total. Among critical care medicine clinicians in UT 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 176 payments — averaging $374.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Olympus America Inc.$25K
- US Endoscopy$11K
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Olympus Medical Systems Corporation$6K
- Steris Corporation$4K
- Cook Incorporated$4K
- plus $10K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$39,74860%
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,77516%
- Travel & lodging$8,21112%
- Food & beverage$7,18811%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Olympus America Inc. | 47 | $24,778 |
| US Endoscopy | 4 | $10,600 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 48 | $6,830 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corporation | 5 | $6,205 |
| Steris Corporation | 21 | $4,111 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $3,740 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $1,817 |
| Olympus Corporation | 5 | $1,328 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 1 | $1,310 |
| Noah Medical Corporation | 8 | $975 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 2 | $790 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 8 | $660 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1 | $655 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $528 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $319 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $268 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $250 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $198 |
| Auris Health, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $117 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $114 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $103 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Ambu Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
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.
- TRUFREEZE$14,226
- Spiration Valve System$14,215
- EVES EUS ULTRASOUND BRONCHOFIBERVIDEOSCOPE$6,160
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,363
- Cook Medical Ciaglia Blue Rhino$3,740
- Shiley$1,487
- Single Use Aspiration Needle NA-U200H$1,310
- DA VINCI SP$1,000
- EVIS EXERA III BRONCHOVIDEOSCOPE$983
- Single-Use flexible Video Bronchoscope$880
- GALAXY$718
- CHARTIS CATHETER$494
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$494
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$494
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$494
- ILLUMISITE$320
- Cook Medical Percutaneous Tracheostomy$303
- superDimension$257
- MONARCH$121
- VIO3 Cryo APC$117
How this compares
$65,922 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 44 critical care medicine providers in Utah.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Valganciclovir Hcl | 14 | $2,184 |
| Omeprazole | 23 | $412 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 11 | $148 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 29 | $124 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 12 | $119 |
| Famotidine | 12 | $119 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 19 | $86 |
| Carvedilol | 11 | $66 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 15 | $63 |
| Prednisone | 14 | $45 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 14 | $31 |
| Citalopram HbrCitalopram Hydrobromide | 11 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other critical care medicine in Salt Lake City
- Theodore LiouSalt Lake City$14K
- James RasmussenSalt Lake City$3K
- James OrmeSalt Lake City$3K
- Jamis GougeSalt Lake City$1K
- Cheryl PirozziSalt Lake City$1K
- Nathan HattonSalt Lake City$763
- Nicholas LevinSalt Lake City$500
- Matthew GlickSalt Lake City$443
- Matthew MorrellSalt Lake City$392
- Benjamin TasevacSalt Lake City$338
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.