Africa Wallace, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Pennington, NJNPI 1548279706
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (46.7%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 85.9% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $11,726 and has fallen 95.7% since, to $501 in 2024.
Across 92 payments — averaging $290.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$23K
- Medtronic$1K
- Boston Scientific$877
- Johnson & Johnson$390
- Avinger Inc.$202
- Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.$186
- plus $857 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,55017%
- Travel & lodging$6,21323%
- Food & beverage$3,48713%
- Education$12,50047%
- Gifts$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 48 | $23,000 |
| Medtronic | 14 | $1,253 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $877 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 4 | $390 |
| Avinger Inc. | 2 | $202 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $186 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $185 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 2 | $173 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $167 |
| Healthmyne, Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| Accuray Incorporated | 1 | $75 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| Monaghan Medical Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $28 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $21 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$19,300
- ION$3,000
- LigaSure$822
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$682
- Monoferric$186
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$143
- MONARCH$106
- Surgicel Powder$106
- PANTHERIS$103
How this compares
$26,764 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 129 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Jersey.
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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 Pennington
- James McPhersonPennington$93K
- Atiq RehmanCherry Hill$503K
- Mark RussoNew Brunswick$219K
- Leonard LeeHackensack$143K
- Adam ArnofskyEnglewood$132K
- Igor GosevNewark$118K
- Kourosh AsgarianNeptune$93K
- Katherine WoodNewark$83K
- George BatsidesNew Brunswick$71K
- Yuji KakuCamden$57K
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.