Peter Lau, MD
Vascular Surgery · Kansas City, MONPI 1407276959
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $16,389 of the $22,879 with a category attached, or 71.6%. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 25.0% of the total.
Across 225 payments — averaging $101.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$6K
- Endologix LLC$4K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$4K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$1K
- plus $5K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$2,1599%
- Travel & lodging$3,79417%
- Food & beverage$16,38972%
- Education$5372%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 43 | $5,727 |
| Endologix LLC | 23 | $3,935 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 34 | $3,513 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 6 | $2,242 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 16 | $1,517 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 19 | $1,119 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 25 | $1,051 |
| Abbott | 6 | $798 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 20 | $475 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $372 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $370 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 5 | $224 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $217 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 3 | $209 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 3 | $198 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 2 | $183 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $157 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $147 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $144 |
| Stryker | 1 | $106 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $55 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $24 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $24 |
| Koya Medical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Endurant$2,821
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,223
- ENDURANT IIS$1,774
- Torus Stent Graft System$1,222
- ENDOCROSS Device$1,222
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$1,221
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$1,091
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$987
- Indigo System$876
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$870
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$708
- Auryon Laser System 100-120 Vac$540
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$531
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$524
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$413
- ESPRIT$400
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$372
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$372
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$370
- VenaSeal$346
How this compares
$22,879 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 92 vascular surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 12 | $13,559 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 13 | $11,317 |
| Cilostazol | 98 | $3,031 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 85 | $1,060 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 34 | $284 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 35 | $183 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $69 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 19 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $55 | $11,31713 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 92 vascular surgery providers in Missouri.
Other vascular surgery in Kansas City
- Robert CarterKansas City$48K
- Robert AndersonKansas City$23K
- Karthik VamananKansas City$7K
- Garrett TibbetsKansas City$7K
- Jamal MalikKansas City$4K
- Jeffrey JimSaint Louis$1.2M
- Karl StarkNorth Kansas City$223K
- Brian PetersonSaint Louis$216K
- Luis SanchezSaint Louis$178K
- Catherine WittgenSaint Louis$139K
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.