Susan Lyons, MD
Medical Oncology · Southfield, MINPI 1104902063
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 142 payments — averaging $82.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$8K
- Merck$623
- AstraZeneca$456
- Gilead$298
- Sobi, Inc$225
- Novartis$216
- plus $2K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,71585%
- Education$49315%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 7 | $8,156 |
| Merck | 9 | $623 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 17 | $456 |
| Gilead(2 entities) | 7 | $298 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $225 |
| Novartis | 13 | $216 |
| Amgen | 11 | $171 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $143 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 8 | $138 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $122 |
| Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $95 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 5 | $91 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $83 |
| Sanofi | 5 | $75 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $75 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $67 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Puma Biotechnology, Inc. | 4 | $55 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $54 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $37 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 2 | $31 |
| Genmab U.S., Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $23 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 1 | $20 |
| G1 Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| GSK | 1 | $15 |
| Verastem, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$11,708 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 170 medical oncology providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lenalidomide | 64 | $1,018,680 |
| RevlimidLenalidomide | 24 | $453,673 |
| CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate | 24 | $379,137 |
| VenclextaVenetoclax | 29 | $353,547 |
| BrukinsaZanubrutinib | 16 | $163,196 |
| EliquisApixaban | 79 | $80,422 |
| PromactaEltrombopag Olamine | 11 | $79,617 |
| Imatinib Mesylate | 24 | $77,363 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 32 | $46,413 |
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 29 | $9,474 |
| Anastrozole | 137 | $4,580 |
| Letrozole | 102 | $3,722 |
| Tamoxifen Citrate | 90 | $1,905 |
| Hydroxyurea | 73 | $1,662 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 43 | $1,144 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid | $91 | $453,67324 claims |
| AstraZenecaCalquence | $456 | $379,13724 claims |
| AbbVieVenclexta | $8,156 | $353,54729 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $95 | $80,42279 claims |
| NovartisPromacta | $216 | $79,61711 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $122 | $46,41332 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCOlanzapine | $67 | $14815 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 45th percentile of 170 medical oncology providers in Michigan.
Other medical oncology in Southfield
- Patricia Lo RussoDetroit$24.6M
- Manish SharmaGrand Rapids$19M
- Moshe TalpazAnn Arbor$13.7M
- Shirish GadgeelDetroit$11M
- Zachery ReichertAnn Arbor$10.6M
- Ammar SukariDetroit$8.4M
- Paul SwiecickiAnn Arbor$7.6M
- Rashmi ChughAnn Arbor$7M
- John KraussAnn Arbor$6.2M
- Emerson LimGrand Rapids$6.1M
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.