Adrian Lata, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1255514188
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (48.4%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abiomed at 50.2% of the total.
Across 108 payments — averaging $97.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$5K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Abbott$1K
- Boston Scientific$416
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$202
- plus $601 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,20030%
- Travel & lodging$2,22721%
- Food & beverage$5,08848%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 26 | $5,276 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 19 | $1,704 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 30 | $1,158 |
| Abbott | 17 | $1,158 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $416 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 3 | $202 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $200 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $158 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $118 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $97 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Impella$4,216
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,057
- Avalus$632
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$359
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$353
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$249
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$153
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$151
- Cook$126
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$118
- GIAPREZA$115
- CG Future$113
How this compares
$10,515 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 132 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in North Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 12 | $4 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Winston Salem
- Leonard WudelWinston Salem$92K
- Bartlomiej ImielskiWinston Salem$29K
- Neal KonWinston Salem$24K
- Peter SmitWinston Salem$20K
- Jesse MaddenWinston Salem$20K
- Edward KincaidWinston Salem$10K
- Hadley WilsonWinston Salem$10K
- Joseph RubelowskyRaleigh$2.2M
- Matthew HartwigDurham$406K
- Gregory SmaroffNew Bern$205K
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.