Andres Jadue Tobar, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Charleston, WVNPI 1265911234
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (35.9%), grants and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 43.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $8,333 and has fallen 51.8% since, to $4,013 in 2025.
Across 160 payments — averaging $124.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$9K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Artivion, Inc.$2K
- Abiomed$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$1K
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$6,66734%
- Travel & lodging$6,05931%
- Food & beverage$7,12636%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 21 | $8,706 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 24 | $3,345 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 5 | $2,119 |
| Abiomed | 17 | $1,814 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 23 | $1,213 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 26 | $1,091 |
| Corcym Inc | 25 | $505 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $186 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $163 |
| Abbott | 1 | $122 |
| Recor Medical Inc | 1 | $104 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 3 | $88 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 2 | $72 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $60 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $34 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 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.
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$1,935
- Impella$1,450
- CoreValve Evolut$1,383
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$1,328
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$791
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$361
- Perceval$243
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$178
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$163
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$149
- VISTASEAL$146
- MANTA$134
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$122
- Paradise Ultrasound Renal Denervation System$104
- LifeVest$103
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$103
How this compares
$19,852 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 30 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in West Virginia.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 30 | $73 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Charleston
- Ghulam AbbasCharleston$50K
- Robert HerronCharleston$11K
- Sandeep KashyapCharleston$8K
- Peter Rodgers-FischlCharleston$8K
- Nathaniel KisterCharleston$8K
- Ramanathan SampathCharleston$565
- Mohammad KhanCharleston$12
- James RankinMorgantown$1.6M
- Vinay BadhwarMorgantown$56K
- Seyfi TokerMorgantown$32K
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.