Has Lucas Pitts, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $235,376 in general payments to Lucas Pitts, MD across 296 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Lucas Pitts, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Lucas Pitts, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Lucas Pitts, MD

Internal Medicine · Kansas City, KSNPI 1639399199

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (40.8%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 75.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $94,445, 2.6 times the $36,727 reported in 2019. Among internal medicine clinicians in KS 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.

$235,376in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 296 payments — averaging $795.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$177K
Boehringer Ingelheim$35K
Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.$7K
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$6K
Olympus America Inc.$5K
Pinnacle Biologics, Inc$3K
plus $3K from 6 others

$78,938in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 75 payments — averaging $1052.51 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Boehringer Ingelheim$73K
Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$3K
Boehringer Ingelheim Limited$2K
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg$844

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$13,4906%
Speaking & faculty fees$94,73040%
Travel & lodging$16,8417%
Food & beverage$14,3156%
Education$96,00041%

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	210	$177,158
Boehringer Ingelheim	19	$34,534
Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.	9	$7,354
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	5	$5,965
Olympus America Inc.	17	$4,933
Pinnacle Biologics, Inc	9	$2,650
Johnson & Johnson	9	$1,429
Olympus Corporation	1	$600
Pulmonx Corporation	10	$526
Boston Scientific	3	$159
Ambu Inc.	3	$57
AbbVie	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$147,996
DA VINCI SP$27,050
OFEV$14,640
Spin$7,213
Always-On Tip Tracked Forceps, 1.8mm OD, Serrated Cup$4,050
SPiN Perc Localization Needle 19ga x 105mm, 1cm marking zone$4,050
EVIS EXERA II ULTRASONIC BRONCHOFIBERVIDEOSCOPE$3,450
PROBE DRIVING UNIT$3,450
Photofrin$2,495
Monarch Platform$1,192
EVIS EXERA II ULTRASOUND GASTROVIDEOSCOPE$600
ENDOCAPSULE SMALL INTESTINAL CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE SET??$416
CHARTIS CATHETER$342
ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$342
ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$342
PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$342
SPiN Thoracic Navigation System, 120V, 60Hz$298
Spiration Valve System$287
ION$206
Olympus$151

How this compares

$235,376 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 705 internal medicine providers in Kansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$76,051

Medicare patients

229

Services billed

647

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.

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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.

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