Alberto de Hoyos, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Lexington, KYNPI 1851355333
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $20,000 of the $31,947 with a category attached, or 62.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 93.4% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $22,050 and has fallen 92.9% since, to $1,557 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in KY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 105 payments — averaging $304.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$30K
- Abiomed$327
- Edwards Lifesciences$306
- Pulmonx Corporation$303
- On Target Laboratories, Inc$297
- Baxter Healthcare$132
- plus $744 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,65415%
- Food & beverage$7,25923%
- Education$20,00063%
- Gifts$340%
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 | 87 | $29,838 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $327 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $306 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 2 | $303 |
| On Target Laboratories, Inc | 1 | $297 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $132 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $125 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $121 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $120 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $107 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $94 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 1 | $84 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $62 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $31 |
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$28,954
- Cytalux$297
- Pulmonx Endobronchial Valve EBV$158
- CHARTIS CATHETER$146
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$146
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$146
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$146
- Impella$135
- No Related Product$132
- TAGRISSO$125
- RESOLUTION CLIP$121
- Echelon Flex$120
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$120
- VISTASEAL$120
How this compares
$31,947 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 98 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Kentucky.
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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 Lexington
- Edward CantuLexington$74K
- Mansi Shah-JadejaLexington$45K
- Theodore WrightLexington$22K
- Hamid MohammadzadehLexington$19K
- Tessa London-BoundsLexington$18K
- Austin WardLexington$18K
- John ChaneyLexington$15K
- Robert MitchellLexington$13K
- Suresh KeshavamurthyLexington$13K
- Shari MeyersonLexington$12K
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.