Aaron Fowler, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Orange, CANPI 1346582053
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 420 payments — averaging $86.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$12K
- Atricure, Inc.$8K
- Abbott$4K
- Abiomed$3K
- Saxum Surgical, Inc.$2K
- Baxter Healthcare$1K
- plus $6K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,7508%
- Travel & lodging$9,99528%
- Food & beverage$23,59065%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 148 | $12,417 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 98 | $8,403 |
| Abbott | 39 | $3,613 |
| Abiomed | 28 | $2,920 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 7 | $1,752 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 21 | $1,415 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $980 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 6 | $671 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $659 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $482 |
| AOP Health US, LLC | 3 | $471 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 7 | $433 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 4 | $383 |
| Davol Inc. | 7 | $361 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 11 | $281 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $210 |
| ZOLL Medical Corporation | 1 | $196 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $146 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $118 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $99 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 3 | $67 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $57 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $55 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $34 |
| Applied Medical Technology Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $20 |
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.
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$2,542
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$2,182
- Impella$1,968
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,822
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,417
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$1,318
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,281
- Rapiblyk$943
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$567
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$455
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$441
- Valiant Captivia$430
- Epic$416
- PREVELEAK$401
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$396
- AngioVac$277
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$266
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$247
- Barostim Neo System$195
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$170
How this compares
$36,335 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.
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Medicare billing
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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Orange
- John MauriceOrange$185K
- Hari KeshavaOrange$139K
- Amir AbolhodaOrange$130K
- Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
- Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
- Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$1.4M
- Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$963K
- Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
- Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
- Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$901K
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.