Has Philip Linden, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,239 in general payments to Philip Linden, MD across 60 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 Philip Linden, 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 Philip Linden, 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.

Philip Linden, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Cleveland, OHNPI 1649268343

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $7,790 of the $12,239 with a category attached, or 63.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 71.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,386 and has fallen 92.5% since, to $406 in 2025.

$12,239in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 60 payments — averaging $203.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$9K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
Davol Inc.$637
Medtronic$415
Atricure, Inc.$266
AstraZeneca$221
plus $720 from 7 others

$21,780in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $4356.00 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.

Zimmer Biomet$21K
Covidien LP$500

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,18710%
Food & beverage$3,26227%
Education$7,79064%

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
Intuitive Surgical	13	$8,747
Johnson & Johnson(3 entities)	16	$1,232
Davol Inc.	7	$637
Medtronic	4	$415
Atricure, Inc.	3	$266
AstraZeneca	2	$221
Boston Scientific	4	$206
Bard Access Systems, Inc.	1	$181
Zimmer Biomet	1	$127
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	2	$88
BD	3	$63
Kls-martin L.p.	3	$33
Baxter Healthcare	1	$23

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

$12,239 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$102,091

Medicare patients

203

Services billed

401

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
Oxycodone Hcl	16	$89

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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