Michael Lang, MD
Neurological Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1669763918
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (60.0%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 75.2% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $22,665 and has fallen 58.4% since, to $9,433 in 2025.
Across 158 payments — averaging $361.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$43K
- Balt USA, LLC$10K
- Microvention, Inc.$1K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$748
- Penumbra, Inc.$398
- Johnson & Johnson$392
- plus $881 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,70013%
- Speaking & faculty fees$34,22060%
- Travel & lodging$8,20614%
- Food & beverage$6,92112%
- Education$200%
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) | 85 | $42,904 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 16 | $10,397 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 12 | $1,347 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 6 | $748 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 18 | $398 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $392 |
| Stryker | 6 | $269 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 2 | $243 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $113 |
| Mizuho America, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Turing Medical Technologies | 1 | $28 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
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.
- MIDAS REX$37,825
- Optima Coil System$5,043
- Raptor Aspiration Catheter$3,850
- Carrier Delivery Catheter$3,850
- Pipeline$2,115
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$637
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$637
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$637
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$637
- Solitaire$283
- SOLITAIRE X$275
- HydroSoft 3D Coil$246
- WEB$246
- Sofia$246
- YASARGIL ANEURYSM CLIPS$243
- TRUFILL$148
- CRANIALMASK TRACKER$145
- Penumbra System$143
- Rist-5F$131
- HydroFrame Coil$126
How this compares
$57,067 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 173 neurological surgery providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 16 | $6,907 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 23 | $266 |
| Prednisone | 18 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Phoenix
- Robert SpetzlerPhoenix$12.8M
- Juan UribePhoenix$6.7M
- Stephen PapadopoulosPhoenix$6M
- Volker SonntagPhoenix$2M
- Jay TurnerPhoenix$1.2M
- Michael LawtonPhoenix$761K
- Bryan LeePhoenix$441K
- Randall PorterPhoenix$410K
- Joseph ZabramskiPhoenix$381K
- Francisco PoncePhoenix$292K
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.