Ali Khoynezhad, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Long Beach, CANPI 1659329209
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $302,134 of the $476,479 with a category attached, or 63.4%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 70.0% of it on its own, with 28 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $156,744 and has fallen 62.2% since, to $59,198 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in CA 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 655 payments — averaging $727.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$334K
- Medtronic$61K
- Bolton Medical Inc$56K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$12K
- Edwards Lifesciences$8K
- Abiomed$1K
- plus $4K from 23 others
Across 53 payments — averaging $3170.89 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Atricure, Inc.$137K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$24K
- Medtronic$7K
- Bolton Medical Inc$242
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$302,13463%
- Speaking & faculty fees$33,3067%
- Travel & lodging$80,24917%
- Food & beverage$38,8118%
- Education$21,9795%
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. | 260 | $333,725 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 148 | $61,496 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 65 | $56,053 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 52 | $12,219 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 53 | $7,902 |
| Abiomed | 18 | $1,238 |
| Abbott | 15 | $1,127 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $486 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $439 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $326 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $240 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $189 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $164 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $151 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $148 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $143 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $39 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Cerus Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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$116,428
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$107,176
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$79,508
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$78,800
- Valiant Captivia$34,567
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$29,495
- ENDURANT IIS$21,631
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$21,235
- Relay Plus$17,817
- Grafts$15,750
- ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$13,608
- DISSECTOR$13,608
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$12,626
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$12,401
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$7,604
- Relay Grafts$6,637
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$2,320
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,698
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,298
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$975
How this compares
$476,479 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.
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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 Long Beach
- Marc SakwaLong Beach$72K
- Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
- Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
- Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
- Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
- Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$875K
- Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$764K
- Wilson TsaiWalnut Creek$680K
- Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$608K
- Harmik SoukiasianLos Angeles$577K
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.