Has Walter Medlin, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,671 in general payments to Walter Medlin, MD across 74 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 Walter Medlin, 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 Walter Medlin, 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.

Walter Medlin, MD

Surgery · Brunswick, MENPI 1932156692

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (34.5%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 66.1% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $7,267 and has fallen 99.2% since, to $58 in 2025.

$11,671in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 74 payments — averaging $157.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$8K
Medtronic$3K
Covidien LP$329
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$143
Microline Surgical Inc$32
Davol Inc.$17
plus $14 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,02835%
Food & beverage$3,45830%
Education$4,00034%
Gifts$1852%

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	18	$7,712
Medtronic	46	$3,424
Covidien LP	6	$329
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$143
Microline Surgical Inc	1	$32
Davol Inc.	1	$17
Novo Nordisk	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.

How this compares

$11,671 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 138 surgery providers in Maine.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$18,016

Medicare patients

Services billed

143

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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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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