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

Lawrence Blass

Surgery Key West, FL Medical Doctor

NPI 1356632335 CMS profile 1609458

3414 Duck Ave # 10, Unit 10, Key West, FL 33040

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General payments

$5,560

86 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, Lawrence Blass of Key West, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $5,560 across 86 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 70th percentile of 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 $391 9
2024 General $401 10
2023 General $265 9
2022 General $674 15
2021 General $590 12
2020 General $130 6
2019 General $3,111 25

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Lawrence Blass were reported at $391. Among 17,702 Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $280 and the middle half received between $91 and $1,259.

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Year Lawrence Blass Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $3,111 $253 $82–$1,521 $163
2020 $130 $131 $40–$706 $114
2021 $590 $168 $50–$904 $132
2022 $674 $224 $76–$1,218 $149
2023 $265 $253 $82–$1,255 $160
2024 $401 $279 $90–$1,381 $164
2025 $391 $280 $91–$1,259 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $1,690 9 payments
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $905 21 payments
  3. Allergan Inc. $815 7 payments
  4. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $576 11 payments
  5. Medtronic, Inc. $516 10 payments
  6. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $272 3 payments
  7. TELA Bio, Inc. $195 5 payments
  8. Organogenesis Inc. $109 5 payments
  9. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $102 1 payment
  10. Dilon Technologies, Inc. $94 1 payment
  11. Other $286 13 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $2,949 78 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $2,611 8 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. ClosureFast EndoVenous Therapies $1,667 8 payments
  2. STRATTICE $815 7 payments
  3. RibFix Blu $484 7 payments
  4. SpyGlass SpyGlass_ENDO $349 6 payments
  5. Da Vinci Surgical System $272 3 payments
  6. VenaSeal $260 2 payments
  7. OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex) $195 5 payments
  8. SPYGLASS Pain Management $132 4 payments
  9. ClosureFast EndoVenous Therapies $130 5 payments
  10. PICO Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy $102 1 payment
  11. Other $1,256 39 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 · 5 drugs

Part D claims

144

Median for General Surgery: 59

Drug cost

$1,443

Median for General Surgery: $393

Branded share of claims

19.4%

Median for General Surgery: 28.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Famotidine Generic 48 $672
Omeprazole Generic 44 $256
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 28 $229
Hydrocortisone Generic 12 $216
Pantoprazole Sodium Generic 12 $70

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 15,891 Part D prescribers listed as General Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 107 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$662,407

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

384

Average age 73

Services billed

2,424

196 women, 188 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 44%
Ischemic heart disease 34%
Atrial fibrillation 23%
Diabetes 21%
Chronic kidney disease 21%
Depression 20%
Cancer 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

86 reported

Every 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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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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

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