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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $517,239 in general payments to Andrew Sherman, MD across 328 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 Sherman, 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 Sherman, 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 Sherman, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Tampa, FLNPI 1992777551

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $487,050 of the $517,239 with a category attached, or 94.2%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $123,249, 3.2 times the $38,572 reported in 2019. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in FL 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.

$517,239in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 328 payments — averaging $1576.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$517K
Edwards Lifesciences$161
Penumbra, Inc.$141
Abbott$106
Bolton Medical Inc$60
Getinge USA Sales, LLC$43
plus $98 from 4 others

$1,040,408in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $130,051 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Atricure, Inc.$1M

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$487,05094%
Travel & lodging$23,0314%
Food & beverage$7,1591%

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.	316	$516,630
Edwards Lifesciences	2	$161
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$141
Abbott	1	$106
Bolton Medical Inc	1	$60
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	2	$43
Abiomed	2	$38
Artivion, Inc.	1	$30
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$15
Bard Peripheral Vascular, 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.

SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$214,338
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$180,687
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$41,003
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$31,844
ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$17,000
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$13,709
ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$13,000
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$4,313
FUSION ABLATION SYSTEM$2,500
DISSECTOR$812
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX, MODELS$147
Indigo System$141
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$130
Perclose ProStyle$106

How this compares

$517,239 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$162,992

Medicare patients

Services billed

296

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 Tampa

Jacques FontaineTampa$630K
Lucian LozonschiTampa$354K
Narendra SastryTampa$50K
Eric TolozaTampa$48K
Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
Barry WintonLargo$687K
Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$666K
John PirrisJacksonville$640K
Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$515K
Daniel O'HairFort Myers$429K

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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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