Robert Lentz, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Nashville, TNNPI 1003050972
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (35.1%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 72.7% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,883, 8.4 times the $933 reported in 2019.
Across 54 payments — averaging $369.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Medtronic$3K
- Pulmonx Corporation$1K
- ERBE USA Inc$314
- Covidien LP$277
- Noah Medical Corporation$270
- plus $503 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,3507%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,35032%
- Travel & lodging$2,19911%
- Food & beverage$3,07115%
- Education$7,00035%
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 | 26 | $14,516 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $2,976 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 9 | $1,114 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 3 | $314 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $277 |
| Noah Medical Corporation | 2 | $270 |
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $233 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $121 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$14,257
- Pulmonx Endobronchial Valve EBV$611
- CHARTIS CATHETER$265
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$265
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$265
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$265
- ILLUMISITE$235
- TRUFREEZE$233
- superDimension$220
- GALAXY$215
- VIO Cryo APC$160
- Progel Applicator Spray Tips$149
- AERO Stent and Delivery System$121
- AEROmini Stent and Delivery System$121
- Elation Balloon Dilator$121
- VIO 300 D$104
- APC2$104
- CRYO$104
How this compares
$19,970 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 339 pulmonary disease providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 11 | $125 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pulmonary disease in Nashville
- Lisa LancasterNashville$519K
- Otis RickmanNashville$392K
- Susan GarwoodNashville$343K
- Joao DeandradeNashville$245K
- Anna HemnesNashville$183K
- Bryan HayNashville$126K
- Karl KuhnNashville$106K
- Fabien MaldonadoNashville$83K
- Margaret SalisburyNashville$53K
- Victor KhaNashville$44K
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.