Ahmad Nazem, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Syracuse, NYNPI 1396749388
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.3%), travel and lodging and gifts — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 44.2% of the total.
Across 301 payments — averaging $74.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$10K
- Medtronic$5K
- Abiomed$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- AOP Health US, LLC$590
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$365
- plus $948 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$10,76648%
- Food & beverage$11,42951%
- Gifts$1000%
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 | 103 | $9,861 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 90 | $5,452 |
| Abiomed | 52 | $2,757 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 19 | $2,323 |
| AOP Health US, LLC | 1 | $590 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 16 | $365 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 2 | $216 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $130 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Bayer | 1 | $99 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $70 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $59 |
| Abbott | 1 | $25 |
| Novartis | 1 | $14 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $12 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $11 |
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$3,379
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$3,030
- Impella$1,944
- CoreValve Evolut$1,565
- Rapiblyk$1,180
- Tri-Ad$1,027
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$916
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$755
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$599
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$567
- Avalus$478
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$214
- Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring$196
- MiraQ$168
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$166
- Octopus$166
- RESTOREFLO$125
- Penditure$109
- LAX$100
How this compares
$22,296 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
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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 Syracuse
- Anton CherneySyracuse$41K
- Zhandong ZhouSyracuse$35K
- Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
- Gilbert TangNew York$842K
- Michael ZervosNew York$811K
- Israel JacobowitzBrooklyn$529K
- Elias ZiasNew York$465K
- Arthur MartellaRochester$431K
- Isaac GeorgeNew York$395K
- Eugene GrossiNew York$350K
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.