Has Yiping Li, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,864 in general payments to Yiping Li, MD across 49 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 Yiping Li, 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 Yiping Li, 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.

Yiping Li, MD

Neurological Surgery · Spokane, WANPI 1699032961

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,864in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 49 payments — averaging $58.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$1K
Microvention, Inc.$816
Penumbra, Inc.$269
Route 92 Medical, Inc.$225
Stryker$140
Imperative Care, Inc$116
plus $162 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$40714%
Food & beverage$2,10774%
Education$35012%

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	26	$1,136
Microvention, Inc.	15	$816
Penumbra, Inc.	2	$269
Route 92 Medical, Inc.	1	$225
Stryker	1	$140
Imperative Care, Inc	1	$116
Microtransponder, Inc.	1	$109
Baxter Healthcare	2	$53

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

$2,864 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 175 neurological surgery providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$231,597

Medicare patients

214

Services billed

867

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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