Has Amjad Syed, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $30,774 in general payments to Amjad Syed, MD across 168 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 Amjad Syed, MD 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 Amjad Syed, MD 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.

Amjad Syed, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Elkhart, INNPI 1932367083

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (30.3%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 45.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $9,191 and has fallen 62.2% since, to $3,473 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in IN 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.

$30,774in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 168 payments — averaging $183.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$14K
Intuitive Surgical$9K
Medtronic$2K
Abbott$1K
Artivion, Inc.$1K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$730
plus $2K from 17 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$9,33630%
Travel & lodging$8,64128%
Food & beverage$5,86719%
Education$6,93123%

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
Edwards Lifesciences	30	$14,062
Intuitive Surgical	15	$8,604
Medtronic(2 entities)	30	$2,453
Abbott	22	$1,365
Artivion, Inc.	3	$1,277
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	5	$730
Zimmer Biomet	12	$640
Johnson & Johnson(3 entities)	13	$434
Atricure, Inc.	14	$270
Abiomed	5	$257
Cvrx, Inc.	2	$162
Cook Medical LLC	1	$115
Shockwave Medical, Inc	1	$108
Boston Scientific	2	$66
LSI Solutions Inc	2	$44
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	2	$35
Kls-martin L.p.	2	$31
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$29
Davol Inc.	1	$24
Solventum Corporation	1	$20
Novartis	1	$19
Arjo Inc.	1	$17
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$14

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.

Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$12,868
DAVINCI XI$6,750
Da Vinci Surgical System$1,665
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,255
AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$1,224
MitraClip$654
Avalus$488
GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$485
SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$423
MitraClip System$333
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$279
AdvantageRib$209
GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$184
Barostim Neo System$138
Monarch Platform$120
XARELTO$117
Cook Medical Zenith$115
RIBFIX BLU ADVANTAGE$111
Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$108

How this compares

$30,774 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 127 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$150,718

Medicare patients

142

Services billed

315

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 Elkhart

Walter HalloranElkhart$8K
Marc GerdischIndianapolis$1.4M
Jason FrazierMunster$574K
James KellyGranger$242K
Sina MoainieCarmel$184K
Samuel JacobMuncie$182K
Andrew BarksdaleIndianapolis$158K
Manesh ParikshakIndianapolis$61K
Joseph GreenleeFort Wayne$43K
Nabeel El-AmirMuncie$38K

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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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