Has Paul Lewis, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,876 in general payments to Paul Lewis, MD across 63 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 Paul Lewis, 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 Paul Lewis, 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.

Paul Lewis, MD

Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Ashland, KYNPI 1780754028

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,455 of the $3,876 with a category attached, or 89.1%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Merz North America, Inc. at 56.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,390 and has fallen 50.7% since, to $685 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular & interventional radiology clinicians in KY, where the typical reported total is $4,163.

$3,876in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 63 payments — averaging $61.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Merz North America, Inc.$2K
Stryker$502
Inari Medical, Inc.$189
Edwards Lifesciences$171
AbbVie$158
Shockwave Medical, Inc$143
plus $531 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$42111%
Food & beverage$3,45589%

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
Merz North America, Inc.	12	$2,181
Stryker	3	$502
Inari Medical, Inc.	8	$189
Edwards Lifesciences	6	$171
AbbVie	15	$158
Shockwave Medical, Inc	4	$143
Sirtex Medical Inc	1	$143
Boston Scientific	2	$105
Penumbra, Inc.	2	$85
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	4	$60
Medtronic	2	$60
Angiodynamics, Inc.	2	$43
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	2	$35

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

$3,876 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 41 vascular & interventional radiology providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$105,812

Medicare patients

430

Services billed

1,120

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
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	14	$213

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Roberto Galuppo MonticelliLexington$15K
Brian WongLouisville$13K
Robert CirilloOwensboro$12K
Gaby GabrielLexington$11K

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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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