Has Alessandro Vivacqua, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,544 in general payments to Alessandro Vivacqua, MD across 127 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Alessandro Vivacqua, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Alessandro Vivacqua, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Alessandro Vivacqua, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Royal Oak, MINPI 1639333198

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,544in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 127 payments — averaging $98.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$5K
Abbott$3K
Edwards Lifesciences$2K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
Atricure, Inc.$416
Zimmer Biomet$406
plus $859 from 12 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$1,62414%
Travel & lodging$1,15810%
Food & beverage$8,76376%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	39	$4,889
Abbott	35	$2,994
Edwards Lifesciences	13	$1,863
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	3	$1,117
Atricure, Inc.	7	$416
Zimmer Biomet	4	$406
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	2	$141
Abiomed	2	$138
Johnson & Johnson	6	$136
LSI Solutions Inc	2	$109
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	4	$79
Hemosonics LLC	3	$76
Artivion, Inc.	1	$52
Baxter Healthcare	2	$41
Haemonetics Corporation	1	$28
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation	1	$21
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$20
Pinnacle, Inc	1	$17

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.

Avalus$1,624
Epic$1,040
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$975
ENDURANT IIS$935
Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$868
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$560
CoreValve Evolut$538
Endurant$381
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$316
STERNALOCK 360 SYSTEM$272
Epic Stented Tissue Valve$168
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$161
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$151
STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$148
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$145
HawkOne$133
RESTOREFLOW$125
Myo/Wire$124
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$123
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$123

How this compares

$12,544 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$174,389

Medicare patients

103

Services billed

203

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
Mupirocin	23	$166
Allopurinol	44	$32
Metoprolol Tartrate	17	$26
Prednisone	11	$20

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Royal Oak

Francis ShannonRoyal Oak$25K
Rakesh SuriRoyal Oak$16K
Steven BollingAnn Arbor$42.4M
Matthew RomanoAnn Arbor$2.2M
Gorav AilawadiAnn Arbor$1.4M
Himanshu PatelAnn Arbor$1.1M
John HeiserGrand Rapids$980K
George DeebAnn Arbor$926K
Shinichi FukuharaAnn Arbor$881K
Raed AlnajjarDetroit$781K

See the full list for Michigan →

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.

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