Alexandra Tuluca, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Philadelphia, PANPI 1891959680
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (52.9%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 77.2% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $13,055 and has fallen 63.4% since, to $4,780 in 2025.
Across 196 payments — averaging $170.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$26K
- Abbott$5K
- Atricure, Inc.$673
- Abiomed$574
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$192
- Medtronic$170
- plus $767 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,72853%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,9886%
- Travel & lodging$3,77111%
- Food & beverage$9,99630%
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 | 86 | $25,862 |
| Abbott | 66 | $5,245 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 19 | $673 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $574 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $192 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $170 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $168 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $158 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $120 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $80 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $50 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $48 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $30 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$11,227
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$10,069
- EVOQUE$1,007
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,000
- Mitra Clip system$849
- MitraClip$847
- NAVITOR$586
- Impella$458
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$358
- OPTIMIZER$336
- TRICLIP$293
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$276
- PASCAL$269
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$170
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$158
- PREVELEAK$120
How this compares
$33,482 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 Philadelphia
- Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
- Michael AckerPhiladelphia$271K
- Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$252K
- Nimesh DesaiPhiladelphia$203K
- Nathaniel EvansPhiladelphia$187K
- Marisa CevascoPhiladelphia$186K
- Pavan AtluriPhiladelphia$165K
- Chase BrownPhiladelphia$137K
- Olugbenga OkusanyaPhiladelphia$132K
- Michael IbrahimPhiladelphia$66K
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.