Has Neal Lintecum, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,135 in general payments to Neal Lintecum, MD across 10 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 Neal Lintecum, 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 Neal Lintecum, 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.

Neal Lintecum, MD

Hand Surgery · Lawrence, KSNPI 1659339000

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 10 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 5 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 33.3% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in KS, where the typical reported total is $2,319.

$1,135in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $113.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$378
Axogen$249
Skeletal Dynamics Inc$234
Alafair Biosciences, Inc.$167
In2bones USA, LLC$106

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,135100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Stryker	3	$378
Axogen	2	$249
Skeletal Dynamics Inc	2	$234
Alafair Biosciences, Inc.	2	$167
In2bones USA, LLC	1	$106

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.

How this compares

$1,135 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 23 hand surgery providers in Kansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$294,199

Medicare patients

617

Services billed

2,032

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 hand surgery in Lawrence

Ryan XiaoLawrence$2K
Thomas McQuillanKansas City$28K
Zachary HansonWichita$24K
Mark WinstonLeawood$16K
Jacob SneddonOlathe$12K
Lisa FrantzWichita$7K
Suzanne EltonOverland Park$6K
Erin MurrayLeawood$6K
Mark McNemarGalena$5K
Kenneth UnruhLeawood$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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