Amit Pawale, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Saint Louis, MONPI 1760716161
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abiomed at 28.2% of the total.
Across 90 payments — averaging $145.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$4K
- Transmedics, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Medtronic$970
- AbbVie$850
- plus $2K from 7 others
Across 29 payments — averaging $3214.42 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.
- AbbVie$56K
- Xvivo Perfusion Inc.$37K
- Transmedics, Inc.$325
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,03246%
- Food & beverage$7,08454%
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 | 34 | $3,696 |
| Transmedics, Inc. | 2 | $2,401 |
| Abbott | 20 | $1,686 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 9 | $1,666 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $970 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $850 |
| Xvivo Perfusion Inc. | 2 | $628 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $596 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $274 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Helios Cardio Inc | 1 | $116 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $66 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $32 |
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.
- Impella$2,548
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$2,401
- Carpentier-Edwards PERIMOUNT Magna Mitral Ease Pericardial Valve$930
- Paragonix SherpaPak Cardiac Transport System$822
- XVIVO Perfusion System (XPS)$628
- HeartWare HVAD$590
- LUNGguard$548
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$533
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$285
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$280
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$246
- MitraClip$185
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$178
- CardioMEMS HF System$159
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$149
- ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$148
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$148
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$146
- CARPENTIER-EDWARDS PERIMOUNT MAGNA MITRAL EASE PERICARDIAL BIOPROSTHESIS$142
- Avalus$139
How this compares
$13,116 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 113 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Missouri.
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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 Saint Louis
- Tsuyoshi KanekoSaint Louis$353K
- Ralph DamianoSaint Louis$134K
- Puja KachrooSaint Louis$57K
- Umraan AhmadSaint Louis$51K
- Nabil MunfakhSaint Louis$44K
- Shuddhadeb RaySaint Louis$38K
- Joshua BakerSaint Louis$36K
- Alexander BresciaSaint Louis$35K
- Kunal Deepak KotkarSaint Louis$33K
- George PattersonSaint Louis$23K
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.