Abdulrhman Elnaggar, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Hershey, PANPI 1285077446
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (55.6%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 31.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $20,774, 4.6 times the $4,533 reported in 2019.
Across 181 payments — averaging $220.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$13K
- Edwards Lifesciences$11K
- Bolton Medical Inc$9K
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Artivion, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$536
- plus $1K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,13310%
- Travel & lodging$22,20856%
- Food & beverage$8,71022%
- Education$4,87512%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 90 | $12,603 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 29 | $10,557 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 22 | $9,066 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $4,533 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 4 | $1,328 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 12 | $536 |
| Abbott | 2 | $524 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $436 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $211 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 4 | $74 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $26 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $21 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $10 |
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.
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$7,361
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,500
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$2,016
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,639
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$1,328
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$465
- Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$375
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$344
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$260
- Epic$148
- Avalus$109
- Impella$104
How this compares
$39,925 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 48 | $262 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 50 | $184 |
| Amoxicillin | 34 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Hershey
- Michael ReedHershey$30K
- Balakrishnan MaheshHershey$30K
- Behzad SoleimaniHershey$24K
- Joseph BavariaAllentown$1.7M
- Basel RamlawiWynnewood$1.1M
- Patrick RossWynnewood$956K
- Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
- Scott GoldmanWynnewood$354K
- Frank BowenCamp Hill$310K
- Michael AckerPhiladelphia$271K
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.