RxDoctor Payments Data

Shelly Lall, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Traverse City, MINPI 1740235886

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $13,175 of the $18,947 with a category attached, or 69.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 79.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $10,318 and has fallen 61.6% since, to $3,958 in 2025.

$18,947in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 74 payments — averaging $256.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$15K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$2K
  • Atricure, Inc.$1K
  • Medtronic$451
  • LSI Solutions Inc$159
  • Olympus America Inc.$149
  • plus $243 from 4 others
$14,470in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $14,470 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.$14K

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,7959%
  • Food & beverage$3,97721%
  • Education$13,17570%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Intuitive Surgical20$15,146
Edwards Lifesciences18$1,641
Atricure, Inc.13$1,158
Medtronic(2 entities)15$451
LSI Solutions Inc2$159
Olympus America Inc.1$149
Abbott2$118
AstraZeneca1$68
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation1$32
Getinge USA Sales, LLC1$25

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

$18,947 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$96,035
Medicare patients
77
Services billed
148

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.

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