Andrew Arndt, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Winfield, ILNPI 1184880452
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $162,640 of the $206,438 with a category attached, or 78.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.3% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $67,907 and has fallen 73.4% since, to $18,089 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 271 payments — averaging $761.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$201K
- Covidien LP$3K
- Baxter Healthcare$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$428
- Davol Inc.$147
- Pulmonx Corporation$127
- plus $510 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,3201%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,5003%
- Travel & lodging$23,43611%
- Food & beverage$13,5337%
- Education$162,64079%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 224 | $200,948 |
| Covidien LP | 26 | $2,849 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $1,430 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 7 | $428 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $127 |
| Scanlan International Inc | 1 | $115 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $114 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $109 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $61 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $42 |
| Bayer | 2 | $28 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$198,902
- Sonicision$2,126
- FLOSEAL$1,320
- DA VINCI SP$500
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$255
- Progel Applicator Spray Tips$147
- CHARTIS CATHETER$127
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$127
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$127
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$127
- LigaSure$115
- PerClot$110
- ACQUIRE$109
How this compares
$206,438 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Illinois.
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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 Winfield
- James LubawskiWinfield$38K
- Jonathan TomaskoWinfield$14K
- James GrammOlympia Fields$386K
- Jessica DoningtonChicago$314K
- S Christopher MalaisrieChicago$254K
- Patrick McCarthyChicago$241K
- Samuel KimChicago$221K
- Douglas JohnstonChicago$205K
- Gianluca TorregrossaChicago$197K
- Valluvan JeevanandamChicago$193K
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.