Andrew Barksdale, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Indianapolis, INNPI 1538363247
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $124,500 of the $158,012 with a category attached, or 78.8%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 88.9% of it on its own, with 31 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $79,966 and has fallen 97.4% since, to $2,112 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in IN 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 406 payments — averaging $389.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$140K
- Edwards Lifesciences$10K
- Clearflow Inc.$2K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$990
- Abiomed$946
- Artivion, Inc.$780
- plus $3K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$124,50079%
- Travel & lodging$23,15715%
- Food & beverage$10,3557%
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. | 228 | $140,497 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 25 | $9,844 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 2 | $1,702 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 50 | $990 |
| Abiomed | 13 | $946 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 5 | $780 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 13 | $562 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 4 | $553 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 13 | $289 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 6 | $266 |
| Abbott | 9 | $236 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 9 | $213 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $165 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $132 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $108 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $99 |
| Saphena Medical, Inc. | 2 | $98 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $93 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $65 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 2 | $48 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $42 |
| On Target Laboratories, Inc | 1 | $31 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $30 |
| Vertex | 1 | $27 |
| Vital Connect, Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$35,901
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$25,673
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$17,125
- PleuraFlow$1,680
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$717
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$592
- Impella$546
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$315
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$251
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$225
- DISSECTOR$225
- LifeVest$204
- ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$193
- THORAFLEX HYBRID$176
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX, MODELS$140
- GIAPREZA$132
- HemoSphere advanced monitoring platform$126
- RibFix Blu$122
- AlphaVac$117
- PICO 7 Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy$117
How this compares
$158,012 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 127 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Indiana.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 15 | $153 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 15 | $91 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 20 | $59 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Indianapolis
- Marc GerdischIndianapolis$1.4M
- Manesh ParikshakIndianapolis$61K
- Ashish PulikalIndianapolis$36K
- Nakul ValsangkarIndianapolis$33K
- Karen RiegerIndianapolis$28K
- John FehrenbacherIndianapolis$26K
- John BrownIndianapolis$25K
- Vincent NardyIndianapolis$19K
- David HeimansohnIndianapolis$17K
- Rachit GuptaIndianapolis$16K
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.