Who Paid My Doc
John Lesser
Cardiovascular Disease Minneapolis, MN Medical Doctor
NPI 1265492862 CMS profile 12487
800 E 28Th St, Minneapolis, MN 55407
General payments
$660
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2023, John Lesser of Minneapolis, MN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $660 across 4 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 31st percentile of Cardiovascular Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
3 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | General | $306 | 1 | |
| 2022 | General | $110 | 1 | |
| 2019 | General | $243 | 2 |
Beside peers
- John Lesser
- Cardiovascular Disease median
- Middle half of Cardiovascular Disease
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to John Lesser were reported at $0. Among 16,617 Cardiovascular Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $432 and the middle half received between $132 and $1,252.
Show as a table
| Year | John Lesser | Cardiovascular Disease median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $243 | $450 | $127–$1,392 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $242 | $77–$751 | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $335 | $101–$1,037 | $132 |
| 2022 | $110 | $395 | $121–$1,211 | $149 |
| 2023 | $306 | $443 | $136–$1,283 | $160 |
| 2024 | $0 | $450 | $136–$1,323 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $432 | $132–$1,252 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 30 drugsPart D claims
1,434
Drug cost
$266,679
Branded share of claims
28.1%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eliquis Apixaban | Brand | 89 | $100,519 | |
| Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan | Brand | 37 | $50,951 | |
| Xarelto Rivaroxaban | Brand | 37 | $37,713 | |
| Jardiance Empagliflozin | Brand | 39 | $35,368 | |
| Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab | Brand | 18 | $22,711 | |
| Metoprolol Succinate | Generic | 118 | $2,730 | |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | Generic | 176 | $2,401 | |
| Carvedilol | Generic | 77 | $1,076 | |
| Losartan Potassium | Generic | 85 | $1,044 | |
| Dilt-Xr Diltiazem Hcl | Brand | 16 | $1,023 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 30 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 18,782 Part D prescribers listed as Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 47 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$97,012
Medicare patients
826
Services billed
12,260
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 61% | |
| Heart failure | 46% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 45% | |
| Arthritis | 43% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 28% | |
| Diabetes | 27% | |
| Depression | 25% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low osmolar contrast material, 300-399 mg/ml iodine concentration, per ml Q9967 | Office | 107 | 11,100 | $1,153 |
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
4 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
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.