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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $196,056 in general payments to Robert Lyons, MD across 315 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 Lyons, 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 Lyons, 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 Lyons, MD

Surgery · Ypsilanti, MINPI 1962795500

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $163,925 of the $196,056 with a category attached, or 83.6%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 94.2% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $76,055, more than ten times the $1,176 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$196,056in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 315 payments — averaging $622.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$185K
Medtronic$7K
Edwards Lifesciences$4K
Biom'up SA$277
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$102
Getinge USA Sales, LLC$49
plus $174 from 5 others

$112,480in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $18,747 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.

Atricure, Inc.$112K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$163,92584%
Travel & lodging$20,46510%
Food & beverage$11,4616%
Education$2040%

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
Atricure, Inc.	232	$184,704
Medtronic	23	$7,167
Edwards Lifesciences	49	$3,583
Biom'up SA	2	$277
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	1	$102
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	2	$49
LSI Solutions Inc	1	$43
Baxter Healthcare	2	$43
Artivion, Inc.	1	$34
Pinnacle, Inc	1	$30
Grifols USA, LLC	1	$24

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.

SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$109,310
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$71,007
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$14,265
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$9,308
AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$3,975
EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$724
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$536
ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$460
ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$346
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$298
HEMOBLAST$277
ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$246
COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$172
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$135
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$114
GIAPREZA$102

How this compares

$196,056 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,081 surgery providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$200,736

Medicare patients

176

Services billed

306

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	23	$194
Metoprolol Tartrate	34	$144
Atorvastatin Calcium	14	$82
Lisinopril	13	$32

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Ypsilanti

Justin ChamberlainYpsilanti$79K
Robert BartlettAnn Arbor$859K
Matthew FourmanMonroe$492K
Bruce McIntoshRochester Hills$435K
Jon SchramZeeland$261K
Eric DaviesBrighton$258K
Joel StrehlTraverse City$170K
John LimClinton Township$141K
Bellal JosephDetroit$114K
Anthony IaccoBeverly Hills$114K

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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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