Lawrence Mendelow, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1811932502
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $174,071 of the $233,715 with a category attached, or 74.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.0% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $58,761 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $240 in 2025. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in MO 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 378 payments — averaging $618.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$231K
- Conmed Corporation$868
- Covidien LP$518
- Medtronic$169
- Johnson & Johnson$144
- Lilly USA, LLC$123
- plus $471 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,2031%
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,5004%
- Travel & lodging$38,79717%
- Food & beverage$9,0954%
- Education$174,07174%
- Gifts$490%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 345 | $231,421 |
| Conmed Corporation | 5 | $868 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $518 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $169 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $144 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $123 |
| Davol Inc. | 6 | $122 |
| Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $54 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $12 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$228,717
- LigaSure$488
- CONMED SUCTION IRRIGATION$415
- Signia$169
- ZEPBOUND$123
- ECHELON ENDOPATH Stapler$109
- Imcivree$108
How this compares
$233,715 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 36 colon & rectal surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf | 35 | $5,613 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 13 | $203 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 38 | $121 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab | $49 | $5,61335 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 36 colon & rectal surgery providers in Missouri.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Saint Louis
- Paul WiseSaint Louis$24K
- Donald SummersSaint Louis$22K
- Steven HuntSaint Louis$17K
- Tatiana Ramirez DominguezSaint Louis$12K
- Eric LedermanSaint Louis$11K
- Patrick ChizekSaint Louis$8K
- Alyssa WaitSaint Louis$6K
- Kathryn GalieSaint Louis$6K
- Sean GlasgowSaint Louis$6K
- William ChapmanSaint Louis$3K
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.