Andrei Churyla, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Milwaukee, WINPI 1215102322
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (38.4%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 36.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,426 and has fallen 85.8% since, to $627 in 2025.
Across 83 payments — averaging $152.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$5K
- Medtronic$4K
- Philips North America LLC$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Abiomed$705
- Bolton Medical Inc$244
- plus $485 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,15025%
- Travel & lodging$4,63037%
- Food & beverage$4,84738%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 37 | $4,660 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 18 | $3,695 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $1,654 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 11 | $1,184 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $705 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $244 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 2 | $218 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $68 |
| Endotronix, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $22 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Werfen USA LLC | 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.
- Octopus$1,928
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,922
- CVX-300$1,650
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$713
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$671
- Impella$635
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$250
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$243
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$162
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$160
- EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$156
- CARPENTIER-EDWARDS PERIMOUNT MAGNA MITRAL EASE PERICARDIAL BIOPROSTHESIS$142
- MiraQ$137
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$132
- ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$121
- Penditure$113
- THORAFLEX HYBRID$113
- PROLENE$104
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$103
How this compares
$12,627 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 97 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Wisconsin.
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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 Milwaukee
- Mario GasparriMilwaukee$516K
- David DemosMilwaukee$446K
- William TisolMilwaukee$339K
- Paul SeifertMilwaukee$31K
- Lucian DurhamMilwaukee$30K
- Goya RaikarMilwaukee$17K
- John CrouchMilwaukee$15K
- Andrew LinMilwaukee$14K
- Lyle JoyceMilwaukee$14K
- Austin RogersMilwaukee$13K
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.