Angelo la Pietra, MD
Thoracic Surgery · Miami Beach, FLNPI 1992793939
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 170 payments — averaging $238.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$24K
- Medtronic$11K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Abbott$599
- Hemosonics LLC$473
- Zimmer Biomet$450
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7118%
- Food & beverage$7,84992%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 39 | $23,682 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 59 | $11,329 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 21 | $2,954 |
| Abbott | 7 | $599 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 18 | $473 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $450 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $200 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $196 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $184 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $138 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $100 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $89 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $69 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $18 |
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.
- EVOQUE$791
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$527
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$431
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$354
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$307
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$279
- KONECT RESILIA$275
- MitraClip$274
- Quantra QPlus System$217
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$205
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$192
- Micra$164
- STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$149
- Azure$143
- COR KNOT$138
- Vasoview Hemopro 2$138
- PROGEL$121
- Endurant$119
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$119
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$110
How this compares
Too few thoracic surgery providers in Floridato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 62 | $228 |
| Methocarbamol | 31 | $77 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 15 | $39 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 11 | $33 |
| Furosemide | 14 | $8 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery in Miami Beach
- Enrique FragaMiami$378
- Lester OrdiwayTampa$31
- Ruben UngaroFt Lauderdale$16
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.