Anita Krueger, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1992023568
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 214 payments — averaging $149.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$16K
- Abbott$5K
- Atricure, Inc.$4K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Boston Scientific$607
- plus $3K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$13,25041%
- Grants$670%
- Travel & lodging$5,58517%
- Food & beverage$11,56236%
- Education$1,5005%
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 | 28 | $15,807 |
| Abbott | 40 | $4,623 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 41 | $3,886 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 9 | $2,009 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 30 | $1,770 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $607 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $492 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $372 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $266 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $196 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $194 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $175 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $158 |
| Nuwellis, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $110 |
| Quest Medical Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $84 |
| Pylant Medical | 2 | $82 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $50 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Koya Medical, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Novartis | 1 | $30 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $23 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $16 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$13,250
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$2,079
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,812
- Mitra Clip system$1,433
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,111
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$959
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$627
- FUSION ABLATION SYSTEM$587
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$587
- Avalus$369
- GlideLight$266
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$195
- TRICLIP$167
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$166
- Abre$161
- HemoSphere$157
- CoreValve Evolut$152
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$151
- AQUADEX SMARTFLOW CONSOLE$150
- Micra$147
How this compares
$31,964 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Fort Worth
- Robert SmithPlano$2.9M
- Michael ReardonHouston$2.7M
- William RyanPlano$2.1M
- Faraz KerendiAustin$1.6M
- Robert HebelerDallas$1.2M
- William BrinkmanPlano$1.2M
- Robert RipleyHouston$817K
- Michael MackPlano$796K
- Katherine HarringtonPlano$723K
- Danny RamzyHouston$620K
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.