Amir Abolhoda, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Orange, CANPI 1891875951
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $99,590 of the $130,177 with a category attached, or 76.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 89.5% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $58,727 and has fallen 96.2% since, to $2,235 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 310 payments — averaging $419.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$117K
- Atricure, Inc.$5K
- Abiomed$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Artivion, Inc.$752
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,0003%
- Travel & lodging$9,6037%
- Food & beverage$16,74913%
- Education$99,59077%
- Gifts$2360%
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 | 120 | $116,524 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 55 | $4,507 |
| Abiomed | 42 | $3,156 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 24 | $1,563 |
| Abbott | 20 | $1,507 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 6 | $752 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 10 | $734 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $186 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $174 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $174 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $120 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $119 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $97 |
| Merck | 1 | $85 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $76 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $75 |
| BD | 1 | $71 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $61 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $53 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $50 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $42 |
| Cerus Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$112,766
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$2,281
- Impella$1,521
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$915
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$796
- Epic$717
- Valiant Captivia$660
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$600
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$460
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$451
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$328
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$280
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$255
- ENDURANT IIS$227
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$174
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$161
- Avalus$150
- Mitra Clip system$130
- PICO$130
How this compares
$130,177 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 Orange
- John MauriceOrange$160K
- Hari KeshavaOrange$73K
- 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
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.