Anthony Ascioti, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Indianapolis, INNPI 1386689776
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,200 of the $9,369 with a category attached, or 66.2%. Cook Incorporated accounts for 68.1% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,468, 7.0 times the $923 reported in 2019.
Across 42 payments — averaging $223.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Incorporated$6K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$568
- Johnson & Johnson$462
- Medtronic$304
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$129
- plus $54 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,20066%
- Travel & lodging$1,60617%
- Food & beverage$1,56317%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Incorporated | 7 | $6,383 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 14 | $1,470 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 10 | $568 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $462 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $304 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $129 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $26 |
| On Target Laboratories, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$852
- MONARCH$398
- Signia$143
- OPDIVO$129
- AdvantageRib$117
- EndoFlip$101
How this compares
$9,369 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 127 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Indiana.
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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 Indianapolis
- Marc GerdischIndianapolis$1.4M
- Andrew BarksdaleIndianapolis$158K
- Manesh ParikshakIndianapolis$61K
- Ashish PulikalIndianapolis$36K
- Nakul ValsangkarIndianapolis$33K
- Karen RiegerIndianapolis$28K
- John FehrenbacherIndianapolis$26K
- John BrownIndianapolis$25K
- Vincent NardyIndianapolis$19K
- David HeimansohnIndianapolis$17K
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.