Robert Lembo, MD
Cardiology · Savannah, GANPI 1225490857
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $8,000 of the $9,931 with a category attached, or 80.6%. Medtronic accounts for 85.0% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $8,122 and has fallen 94.1% since, to $482 in 2025.
Across 47 payments — averaging $211.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$8K
- Boston Scientific$351
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$256
- Inari Medical, Inc.$210
- Recor Medical Inc$124
- AstraZeneca$115
- plus $433 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$8,00081%
- Food & beverage$1,83118%
- Education$1001%
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) | 10 | $8,442 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $351 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $256 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 12 | $210 |
| Recor Medical Inc | 1 | $124 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $115 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $102 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $96 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $44 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $32 |
| Amgen | 1 | $25 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Novartis | 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.
How this compares
$9,931 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 24 cardiology providers in Georgia.
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 | 13 | $15,466 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 21 | $14,113 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 11 | $5,918 |
| Bumetanide | 88 | $1,552 |
| Potassium Chloride | 41 | $482 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 45 | $327 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 36 | $274 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 34 | $244 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 25 | $177 |
| Carvedilol | 33 | $161 |
| Spironolactone | 33 | $133 |
| Atenolol | 18 | $109 |
| Olmesartan Medoxomil | 19 | $102 |
| Furosemide | 25 | $88 |
| Hydrochlorothiazide | 15 | $59 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| NovartisEntresto | $14 | $14,11321 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 75th percentile of 24 cardiology providers in Georgia.
Other cardiology in Savannah
- Rajinder ChhokarColumbus$17K
- Kalaivani SivakumarAtlanta$16K
- Zulfiquar BhattiColumbus$16K
- Vaibhav PatelColumbus$15K
- Samir MewarColumbus$15K
- Obinnaya EmeroleMacon$8K
- Mark WatkinsBrunswick$4K
- Annie HoAtlanta$2K
- John SmithAtlanta$1K
- Chukwuemeka NwabueboMacon$877
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.