Stephanie Lininger
Acute Care · Shawnee Mission, KSNPI 1962580209
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $10,190 of the $14,979 with a category attached, or 68.0%. 38 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 26.7% of the total. Among acute care clinicians in KS 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.
Across 367 payments — averaging $40.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Abbott$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$1K
- Novo Nordisk$456
- plus $3K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$7505%
- Travel & lodging$4,02527%
- Food & beverage$10,19068%
- Education$140%
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 | 76 | $3,994 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 28 | $2,592 |
| Abbott | 44 | $2,486 |
| Boston Scientific | 21 | $1,319 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 12 | $1,126 |
| Novo Nordisk | 13 | $456 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 29 | $430 |
| Pfizer | 18 | $342 |
| Merck | 17 | $258 |
| Novartis | 14 | $228 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $224 |
| Amgen | 8 | $145 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 8 | $138 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $121 |
| Bayer | 6 | $115 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 6 | $99 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $86 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $83 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $83 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $67 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 3 | $64 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $53 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $39 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $22 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$2,267
- MitraClip$1,118
- LifeVest$853
- WATCHMAN Access System$837
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$609
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$330
- CARDIOMEMS$154
- NAVITOR$151
- WATCHMAN FLX$130
- PASCAL$117
How this compares
$14,979 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 113 acute care providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 14 | $226 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 11 | $190 |
| Losartan Potassium | 14 | $83 |
| Potassium Chloride | 14 | $69 |
| Furosemide | 24 | $60 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 35 | $24 |
| Amoxicillin | 12 | $8 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Shawnee Mission
- Tony AnnoShawnee Mission$3K
- Megan JacksonShawnee Mission$347
- Susan MooreOttawa$31K
- Jennifer WatkinsKansas City$23K
- Nicole WaltonOverland Park$14K
- Sarah KrejciLeawood$12K
- Lesa FullerWichita$9K
- Kristi DuchanoisKansas City$6K
- Jorge SimentalHutchinson$6K
- Katie JaschkeKansas City$5K
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.