Has Michael Cruz, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $25,485 in general payments to Michael Cruz, MD across 82 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 Michael Cruz, 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 Michael Cruz, 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.

Michael Cruz, MD

Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck · Spokane, WANPI 1083665145

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $20,800 of the $25,485 with a category attached, or 81.6%. GSK accounts for 85.0% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $19,978, more than ten times the $626 reported in 2019. Among plastic surgery within the head & neck clinicians in WA 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.

$25,485in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 82 payments — averaging $310.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

GSK$22K
Aerin Medical Inc.$896
Stryker$780
Regeneron$647
Intersect ENT, Inc.$370
AstraZeneca$364
plus $762 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$4002%
Speaking & faculty fees$20,80082%
Travel & lodging$1791%
Food & beverage$4,10616%

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
GSK	27	$21,666
Aerin Medical Inc.	6	$896
Stryker	12	$780
Regeneron	6	$647
Intersect ENT, Inc.	5	$370
AstraZeneca	11	$364
Sanofi	5	$362
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$142
Neurent Medical Limited	2	$99
Arrinex, Inc.	1	$78
Optinose US, Inc.	3	$53
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$28

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.

NUCALA$21,291
VIVAER STYLUS$704
RHINAER STYLUS$704
DUPIXENT$586
CLARIFIX CRYOTHERAPY DEVICE$257
LATERA$257
SCOPIS ENT$170
TEZSPIRE$123
PROPEL$117
SINUVA$109
FASENRA$107
XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$107
NASAL POLYPOSIS - DISEASE$100

How this compares

$25,485 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 21 plastic surgery within the head & neck providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$149,898

Medicare patients

192

Services billed

779

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
Ipratropium Bromide	233	$6,815
Fluticasone Propionate	35	$685
Mupirocin	27	$297
Cephalexin	20	$276
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	22	$235
Prednisone	41	$227
Azithromycin	19	$212
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	47	$202
Methylprednisolone	16	$140
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	19	$59
Levofloxacin	13	$54

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other plastic surgery within the head & neck in Spokane

Jeffrey BunnSpokane$2K
Neal FutranSeattle$40K
Kristen MoeSeattle$16K
Scott BevansTacoma$9K
Joseph BellairsFederal Way$8K
Wayne LarrabeeSeattle$4K
Seth SchwartzSeattle$4K
Justin PavlovichTacoma$4K
Nigel DenisBurien$3K
Brittany BarberSeattle$3K

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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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