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Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Springfield, MONPI 1184982100
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (50.8%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 56.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $11,479 and has fallen 67.3% since, to $3,752 in 2025.
Across 116 payments — averaging $220.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$14K
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Medtronic$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Artivion, Inc.$996
- Abiomed$792
- plus $567 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,14624%
- Food & beverage$6,43925%
- Education$13,00051%
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 | 27 | $14,420 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 26 | $4,513 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 26 | $2,578 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 12 | $1,719 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 10 | $996 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $792 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $172 |
| BD | 1 | $160 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $139 |
| Abbott | 1 | $65 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $18 |
| Novartis | 1 | $12 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$10,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,521
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$2,000
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,318
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,108
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$1,037
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$575
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$318
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$315
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$300
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$173
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$168
- Edwards MC3 Tricuspid Annuloplasty Ring$151
- TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$139
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$136
How this compares
$25,585 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 113 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Missouri.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydroxyzine Hcl | 11 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Springfield
- Dante DaliSpringfield$58K
- Keith AllenSpringfield$16K
- Hersh ManiarSpringfield$15K
- Matthew ParmleySpringfield$12K
- Kuo HuangSpringfield$12K
- James DaySpringfield$9K
- Justin van MeeterenKansas City$398K
- Tsuyoshi KanekoSaint Louis$353K
- Ralph DamianoSaint Louis$134K
- Joss FernandezColumbia$100K
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.