Alexander Sbrocchi, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Charleston, SCNPI 1710336078
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 90.2% of the total across 289 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 31 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 35.9% of the total.
Across 289 payments — averaging $47.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Medtronic$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$1K
- Baxter Healthcare$793
- Abiomed$692
- plus $3K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,33310%
- Food & beverage$12,30490%
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 | 91 | $4,892 |
| Medtronic | 49 | $1,725 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 24 | $1,134 |
| Abbott | 11 | $1,046 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 13 | $793 |
| Abiomed | 18 | $692 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $669 |
| Boston Scientific | 19 | $470 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 6 | $435 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 8 | $393 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $226 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 13 | $202 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $152 |
| Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C. | 2 | $127 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $56 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Corcym Inc | 2 | $44 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $36 |
| BD | 1 | $35 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $32 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $26 |
| GSK | 1 | $20 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $20 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $10 |
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.
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$623
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$499
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$486
- PREVELEAK$346
- COSEAL$241
- SternaLock Blu$226
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$192
- CARDIOMEMS$178
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$173
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$158
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$148
- MitraClip$136
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$134
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$134
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$121
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$121
- Perceval$121
- CardioMEMS HF System$108
- Acrobat-I Stabilizer$103
How this compares
$13,637 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 83 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in South Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 14 | $124 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Charleston
- Curtis QuinnCharleston$374K
- Marc KatzCharleston$265K
- Arman KilicCharleston$170K
- Barry GibneyCharleston$39K
- Jacob KlapperCharleston$38K
- Kathryn EngelhartdtCharleston$33K
- Sanford ZeiglerCharleston$30K
- Elizabeth KlineCharleston$16K
- Scott RossCharleston$12K
- Sarah ChenCharleston$8K
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.