Ahmed Romeya, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Big Spring, TXNPI 1598834186
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $101,350 of the $144,683 with a category attached, or 70.0%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 93.4% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $60,709 and has fallen 72.5% since, to $16,677 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 232 payments — averaging $623.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$135K
- Medtronic$4K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$3K
- Artivion, Inc.$975
- Abiomed$614
- Edwards Lifesciences$346
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$101,35070%
- Travel & lodging$33,94023%
- Food & beverage$9,3926%
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. | 147 | $135,164 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 27 | $3,611 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 16 | $2,931 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $975 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $614 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 5 | $346 |
| Body Vision Medical Inc. | 1 | $229 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 9 | $165 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $143 |
| Microtransponder, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $94 |
| Abbott | 3 | $53 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $41 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $41 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $23 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$74,495
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$28,257
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$20,163
- DISSECTOR$10,599
- LARIAT RS$8,000
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$4,644
- ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$3,428
- AngioVac$2,643
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,847
- CoreValve Evolut$1,530
- Octopus$1,510
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$975
- Impella$560
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$478
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$342
- LungVision$229
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$169
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX, MODELS$140
- MULTIFUNCTIONAL LINEAR PEN$137
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$121
How this compares
$144,683 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 17 | $965 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Big Spring
- Faraz KerendiAustin$906K
- Robert HebelerDallas$723K
- Michael ReardonHouston$713K
- Danny RamzyHouston$527K
- Scott OlssonCypress$357K
- Randall WolfHouston$283K
- Gary JettPlano$277K
- Darien BradfordBurleson$266K
- William BrinkmanPlano$266K
- Brannon HydeAustin$214K
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.