Has Amie Kent received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,790 in general payments to Amie Kent across 33 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 Amie Kent 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 Amie Kent 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.

Amie Kent

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New York, NYNPI 1043536212

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $3,000 of the $4,790 with a category attached, or 62.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 88.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,959 and has fallen 95.1% since, to $193 in 2025.

$4,790in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $145.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$4K
Edwards Lifesciences$246
AstraZeneca$150
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$91
Abiomed$34
Zimmer Biomet$27

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$71415%
Food & beverage$1,07622%
Education$3,00063%

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
Intuitive Surgical	15	$4,241
Edwards Lifesciences	10	$246
AstraZeneca	2	$150
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	4	$91
Abiomed	1	$34
Zimmer Biomet	1	$27

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.

How this compares

$4,790 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$29,224

Medicare patients

Services billed

157

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 New York

Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
Gilbert TangNew York$842K
Michael ZervosNew York$811K
Elias ZiasNew York$465K
Isaac GeorgeNew York$395K
Eugene GrossiNew York$350K
Costas BizekisNew York$321K
Brendon StilesNew York$314K
Daniela MolenaNew York$221K
Arnar GeirssonNew York$218K

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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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