Lauren Kopicky, DO
Surgery · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1295172682
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $20,330 of the $32,778 with a category attached, or 62.0%. Merit Medical Systems Inc accounts for 61.8% of it on its own, with 26 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $18,310, more than ten times the $757 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in IN 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 90 payments — averaging $364.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$20K
- Merck$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Hologic Inc$2K
- Axogen$2K
- Endomagnetics Ltd$529
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20,33062%
- Travel & lodging$5,91118%
- Food & beverage$6,35019%
- Entertainment$1871%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 28 | $20,260 |
| Merck | 2 | $2,970 |
| Stryker | 11 | $2,461 |
| Hologic Inc | 7 | $2,167 |
| Axogen | 9 | $1,939 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 5 | $529 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $350 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $313 |
| Molli Surgical (US) Inc | 2 | $244 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $242 |
| KUB Technologies Inc. | 1 | $187 |
| Sirius Medical Systems | 2 | $171 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 3 | $161 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $125 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $123 |
| Bioptics, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $90 |
| Isono Health, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $30 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Clovis Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Cardinal Health 414 LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Savi SCOUT$18,223
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$1,814
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$1,814
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$1,814
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$1,814
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$1,814
- 1788$1,685
- BioZorb$968
- TRIDENT SPECIMEN RADIOGRAPHY SYSTEM$895
- Magseed$622
- Magtrace$395
- myRisk$350
- SENTIMAG$269
- Mozart$187
- PHOTONBLADE$182
- PlasmaBlade$148
- MATRIXRIB$146
- MOLLI$137
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$129
- LYNPARZA$125
How this compares
$32,778 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 524 surgery providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Anastrozole | 35 | $209 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 31 | $22 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Fort Wayne
- Patricia ClarkFort Wayne$82K
- Kingsley OkaiFort Wayne$33K
- Lisa SchomogyiFort Wayne$22K
- Emanuel NearingFort Wayne$15K
- Michael GrabowskiFort Wayne$14K
- Sean KarrFort Wayne$14K
- Paul SzotekIndianapolis$2.4M
- Carlos Gonzalez RendonMunster$275K
- Anthony ZappiaCarmel$105K
- Jeremy Luedtkela Porte$102K
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.