Amber Malhotra, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Temple, TXNPI 1528548302
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 137 payments — averaging $70.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Artivion, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$708
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,15333%
- Food & beverage$6,05663%
- Education$4094%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 38 | $1,801 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 23 | $1,759 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 6 | $1,521 |
| Abbott | 18 | $1,490 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 11 | $1,234 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 10 | $708 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $158 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 2 | $131 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $125 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $116 |
| Pylant Medical | 2 | $100 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 2 | $60 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 2 | $30 |
| Biostable Science & Engineering | 1 | $29 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $24 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Stryker | 1 | $20 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 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.
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$946
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$875
- Avalus$841
- Impella$788
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$771
- ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$444
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$444
- DISSECTOR$444
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$444
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$400
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$299
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$246
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$161
- HemoSphere$140
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$131
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$119
- COR KNOT$116
How this compares
$9,618 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.
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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 Temple
- Robert SmithPlano$2.9M
- Michael ReardonHouston$2.7M
- William RyanPlano$2.1M
- Faraz KerendiAustin$1.6M
- Robert HebelerDallas$1.2M
- William BrinkmanPlano$1.2M
- Robert RipleyHouston$817K
- Michael MackPlano$796K
- Katherine HarringtonPlano$723K
- Danny RamzyHouston$620K
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.