Richard Coats, MD
Vascular Surgery · Lees Summit, MONPI 1972507705
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $12,754 of the $16,087 with a category attached, or 79.3%. 36 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 24.7% of the total.
Across 224 payments — averaging $71.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- VB Spine LLC$2K
- Cook Medical LLC$1K
- Philips North America LLC$874
- Endologix LLC$825
- plus $5K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,92012%
- Travel & lodging$1,3378%
- Food & beverage$12,75479%
- Education$760%
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(3 entities) | 65 | $3,970 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 32 | $2,576 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $1,920 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 16 | $1,094 |
| Philips North America LLC | 8 | $874 |
| Endologix LLC | 4 | $825 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 14 | $603 |
| Boston Scientific | 17 | $454 |
| Abbott | 4 | $428 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 4 | $378 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $355 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 5 | $319 |
| GE HealthCare | 4 | $244 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $222 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 4 | $210 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $184 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $179 |
| Venclose Inc. | 1 | $175 |
| Stryker | 2 | $170 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $157 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $155 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $150 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 3 | $134 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Mozarc Medical US LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $16 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $14 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 1 | $12 |
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.
- VLIFT$1,920
- ENDURANT IIS$818
- IGT Devices Und$624
- Cook$611
- Torus Stent Graft System$450
- ENDOCROSS Device$450
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$418
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$411
- PROCLAIM$388
- Diamondback Peripheral$353
- IN.PACT Admiral$335
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$292
- Azur CX Detachable$289
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$277
- Heli-FX EndoAnchor System$243
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$223
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$178
- Zenith Spiral-Z$176
- EVRSF$175
- VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis$172
How this compares
$16,087 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 79 | $745 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Lees Summit
- Austin WagnerLees Summit$16K
- David MantillaLees Summit$7K
- Jeffrey JimSaint Louis$1.2M
- Karl StarkNorth Kansas City$223K
- Brian PetersonSaint Louis$216K
- Luis SanchezSaint Louis$178K
- Catherine WittgenSaint Louis$139K
- John OhmanSaint Louis$113K
- Jonathan BathColumbia$76K
- Scott KujathNorth Kansas City$72K
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.