Has Andrew Harding, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $21,236 in general payments to Andrew Harding, MD across 181 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 Andrew Harding, 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 Andrew Harding, 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.

Andrew Harding, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · la Jolla, CANPI 1124475355

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $14,532 of the $21,236 with a category attached, or 68.4%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 24.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,260, more than ten times the $131 reported in 2019.

$21,236in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 181 payments — averaging $117.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$5K
Medtronic$3K
Abiomed$2K
Atricure, Inc.$2K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
Baxter Healthcare$1K
plus $6K from 16 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$4502%
Travel & lodging$5,95428%
Food & beverage$14,53268%
Education$2991%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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	32	$5,242
Medtronic	28	$3,494
Abiomed	24	$1,939
Atricure, Inc.	19	$1,625
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	14	$1,549
Baxter Healthcare	17	$1,433
Philips North America LLC	7	$1,258
Abbott	11	$1,227
Johnson & Johnson	6	$820
Intuitive Surgical	1	$450
Bolton Medical Inc	4	$410
Stryker	3	$385
Cook Medical LLC	2	$252
Zimmer Biomet	2	$215
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	2	$206
Angiodynamics, Inc.	2	$205
Artivion, Inc.	1	$175
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	1	$131
BD	1	$131
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	2	$45
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	1	$38
Cvrx, Inc.	1	$5

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$2,809
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,237
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,120
Epic$1,087
Valiant Captivia$963
GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$910
Impella$826
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$550
SURGIFLO Hemostatic Matrix$545
(9124) LM Undivided$521
(9520) IGT Devices Undivided$518
Da Vinci Surgical System$450
FLOSEAL$395
NA$385
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$337
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$304
PREVELEAK$275
COSEAL$250
OSTENE$249
CARPENTIER-EDWARDS PHYSIO ANNULOPLASTY RING WITH HOLDER - MITRAL$219

How this compares

$21,236 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$27,271

Medicare patients

Services billed

107

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 la Jolla

Sam Baradarianla Jolla$53K
Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$875K
Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$764K
Wilson TsaiWalnut Creek$680K
Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$608K
Harmik SoukiasianLos Angeles$577K

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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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