Michel Lacroix, MD
Neurological Surgery · Wilkes Barre, PANPI 1316190168
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (45.8%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Novocure Inc. at 34.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $11,264 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $39 in 2023.
Across 64 payments — averaging $231.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novocure Inc.$5K
- Medtronic$5K
- Monteris Medical Corporation$2K
- Brainlab, Inc.$2K
- Insightec,inc$162
- Zap Surgical Systems, Inc.$118
- plus $72 from 1 others
Across 19 payments — averaging $3263.87 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.
- Monteris Medical Corporation$54K
- Novocure Inc.$8K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,50037%
- Travel & lodging$6,79746%
- Food & beverage$2,54517%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novocure Inc. | 12 | $5,049 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 35 | $4,636 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 7 | $2,403 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 6 | $2,402 |
| Insightec,inc | 1 | $162 |
| Zap Surgical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $72 |
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.
- Oncology$4,921
- Neuroblate$2,260
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,136
- Exablate$162
- ZAP-X MV IMAGER$118
- ZAP-X TREATMENT PLANNING SOFTWARE$118
- ZAP-X TREATMENT DELIVERY SOFTWARE$118
- ZAP-X RADIOSURGERY SYSTEM$118
How this compares
$14,842 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 390 neurological surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Wilkes Barre
- Amer SamdaniPhiladelphia$4.4M
- Steven FalowskiFountain Hill$3M
- Adam KanterPittsburgh$2.6M
- David OkonkwoPittsburgh$2.3M
- Brian JankowitzPhiladelphia$823K
- Gaurav JainWynnewood$599K
- Joshua HellerPhiladelphia$519K
- Srinivas PrasadPhiladelphia$513K
- Constantinos HadjipanayisPittsburgh$484K
- Oded GorenDanville$448K
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.