Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Franklin Lin

Neurological Surgery Marietta, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1679648927 CMS profile 166992

61 Whitcher St Ne, Suite 4100, Marietta, GA 30060

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General payments

$69,014

168 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Franklin Lin of Marietta, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $69,014 across 168 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 88th percentile of Neurological Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,242 30
2024 General $719 24
2023 General $233 3
2022 General $15,720 20
2021 General $16,452 16
2020 General $15,244 24
2019 General $19,405 51

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Franklin Lin
  • Neurological Surgery median
  • Middle half of Neurological Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Franklin Lin were reported at $1,242. Among 5,467 Neurological Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $596 and the middle half received between $159 and $3,102.

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Year Franklin Lin Neurological Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $19,405 $582 $138–$3,006 $163
2020 $15,244 $294 $76–$2,174 $114
2021 $16,452 $387 $105–$2,432 $132
2022 $15,720 $542 $139–$2,989 $149
2023 $233 $534 $145–$2,697 $160
2024 $719 $574 $155–$3,046 $164
2025 $1,242 $596 $159–$3,102 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Globus Medical, Inc. $36,153 73 payments
  2. MiRus, LLC $28,271 19 payments
  3. Spineology Inc. $1,000 1 payment
  4. Medtronic, Inc. $790 11 payments
  5. Medtronic USA, Inc. $412 5 payments
  6. Nevro Corp. $395 4 payments
  7. Boston Scientific Corporation $268 2 payments
  8. DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $253 9 payments
  9. Augmedics Inc. $252 5 payments
  10. Intrinsic Therapeutics $246 3 payments
  11. Other $974 36 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $31,200 9 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $24,000 14 payments
  3. Royalty or License $5,196 1 payment
  4. Food and Beverage $4,697 121 payments
  5. Travel and Lodging $3,921 23 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate $28,271 19 payments
  2. EUROPA Pedicle Screw System $25,506 16 payments
  3. EUROPA Midline System $8,535 4 payments
  4. ALTERA $7,475 2 payments
  5. CALIBER $7,439 6 payments
  6. RIGEL 3DR Cervical Interbody $7,196 2 payments
  7. IO Expandable Lumbar Interbody $7,196 2 payments
  8. MiRus 3DR Lumbar Interbody System $7,196 2 payments
  9. CREO Spine $6,996 3 payments
  10. CREO Spine/Joint $6,867 4 payments
  11. Other $16,128 170 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 11 drugs

Part D claims

480

Median for Neurosurgery: 83

Drug cost

$5,492

Median for Neurosurgery: $872

Branded share of claims

33.5%

Median for Neurosurgery: 16.5%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 87 $1,434
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 77 $1,190
Gabapentin Generic 63 $681
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 64 $616
Pregabalin Generic 17 $451
Methocarbamol Generic 59 $307
Morphine Sulfate Er Morphine Sulfate Brand 20 $264
Baclofen Generic 16 $221
Methylprednisolone Generic 43 $211
Tramadol Hcl Generic 22 $83

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 11 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 2,779 Part D prescribers listed as Neurosurgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 52 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$126,538

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

168

Average age 73

Services billed

419

88 women, 80 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Ischemic heart disease 39%
Depression 37%
Diabetes 34%
Chronic kidney disease 29%
Heart failure 19%
Atrial fibrillation 19%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

168 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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