Has Robert Lager, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $296 in general payments to Robert Lager, MD across 6 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 Robert Lager, 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 Robert Lager, 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.

Robert Lager, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Washington, DCNPI 1972510741

Payments from drug & device makers

$296in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $49.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$208
Amgen$60
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$27

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$296100%

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	$208
Amgen	2	$60
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$27

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.

ONYX FRONTIER$116

How this compares

$296 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 105 cardiovascular disease providers in District of Columbia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$349,369

Medicare patients

895

Services billed

3,464

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	125	$159,056
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab	57	$64,358
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	32	$47,411
JardianceEmpagliflozin	28	$30,145
XareltoRivaroxaban	11	$17,479
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl	13	$11,571
MultaqDronedarone Hcl	16	$11,147
Rosuvastatin Calcium	223	$5,922
Ezetimibe	113	$4,161
Metoprolol Succinate	187	$4,036
Icosapent Ethyl	11	$3,536
Atorvastatin Calcium	190	$2,575
Nebivolol Hcl	20	$1,801
Olmesartan Medoxomil	58	$1,426
Valsartan	33	$1,288

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Jaffar KhanWashington$330K
Susan O'DonoghueWashington$207K
Richard KatzWashington$207K
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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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