Lucian Panait, MD
Surgery · Chaska, MNNPI 1639337017
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (40.5%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 61.4% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in MN 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 202 payments — averaging $424.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$53K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$15K
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Endolumik, Inc.$4K
- Gyrus ACMI, Inc.$3K
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$34,73541%
- Speaking & faculty fees$31,89537%
- Travel & lodging$10,80613%
- Food & beverage$5,2446%
- Education$3,0004%
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) | 117 | $52,584 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 15 | $14,853 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 22 | $6,673 |
| Endolumik, Inc. | 5 | $4,166 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 2 | $2,900 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $2,178 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $773 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $582 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $219 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 2 | $154 |
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $149 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 6 | $95 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Amgen | 1 | $34 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 1 | $24 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $18 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Digestive Care, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Microline Surgical Inc | 1 | $9 |
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.
- EXPAREL$14,635
- Signia$10,698
- TRANSORB$4,250
- Endolumik Gastric Calibration Tube$4,100
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,379
- ProGrip$3,087
- DAVINCI XI$3,000
- Dextile$2,800
- Iovera$2,200
- Zilretta$2,200
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$2,178
- Sonicision$520
- Product in Development$500
- X-Tack Endoscopic HeliX Tacking System$218
- LigaSure$161
- PHASIX$139
- Phasix Mesh$114
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$109
- ORBERA Intragastric Balloon System$109
- VS3 IRIDIUM - FLUORESCENCE HIGH DEFINITION CAMERA (CAMERA-IR)$106
How this compares
$85,680 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 498 surgery providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 22 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Chaska
- Jayson DockShakopee$266K
- Charles SvendsenMinneapolis$266K
- Michael MegalyMinneapolis$168K
- Andrew SurmakSaint Louis Park$167K
- William NorthrupWhite Bear Lake$160K
- Jolene SinghSt Cloud$150K
- Mark SneiderSaint Paul$120K
- Todd KelloggRochester$110K
- Sean ClearyRochester$107K
- Raja KandaswamyMinneapolis$100K
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.