Has Stephen Dickson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $23,066 in general payments to Stephen Dickson, MD across 71 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 Stephen Dickson, 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 Stephen Dickson, 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.

Stephen Dickson, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Topeka, KSNPI 1720086242

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $15,546 of the $23,066 with a category attached, or 67.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 79.7% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $14,549 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $433 in 2025.

$23,066in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 71 payments — averaging $324.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$18K
Medtronic$3K
Edwards Lifesciences$976
Cook Medical LLC$222
Atricure, Inc.$105
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$91
plus $138 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,14518%
Food & beverage$3,37415%
Education$15,54667%

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	27	$18,394
Medtronic(2 entities)	21	$3,141
Edwards Lifesciences	9	$976
Cook Medical LLC	2	$222
Atricure, Inc.	3	$105
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$91
Johnson & Johnson	1	$46
Novo Nordisk	2	$39
Zimmer Biomet	2	$35
Amgen	1	$19

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

$23,066 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 42 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Kansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$102,699

Medicare patients

205

Services billed

473

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	64	$1,081
Atorvastatin Calcium	15	$68
Metoprolol Tartrate	12	$22

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Juan Geronimo AdamesTopeka$12K
Peter TutuskaTopeka$3K
Keith AllenKansas City$2M
Jessica HeimesKansas City$89K
Matthew DanterKansas City$86K
Emmanuel DaonKansas City$47K

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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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