Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

BRUCE S LACHTERMAN

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease

NPI
1215938899
CMS profile
237223
Location
THE WOODLANDS, TX

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$5,048.94

  • Reported across 106 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$308.84

7 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $308.84 7

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
IMPULSE DYNAMICS (USA) INC. $154.25 1
Abbott Laboratories $74.61 3
Biosense Webster, Inc. $53.35 2
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION $26.63 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $1,446.54 22
PY2019 $1,646.31 31
PY2020 $74.63 4
PY2021 $443.17 13
PY2022 $626.48 14
PY2023 $502.97 15
PY2024 $308.84 7

Payment records · PY2024 (7)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Abbott Laboratories $18.49 03/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124905642 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $36.84 04/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124905644 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $19.28 08/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124905646 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $26.80 03/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077738220 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $26.55 06/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077738204 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $26.63 09/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1092626369 CMS
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. $154.25 03/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1100418393 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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