Has Anthony Caffarelli, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $76,335 in general payments to Anthony Caffarelli, MD across 142 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 Anthony Caffarelli, 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 Anthony Caffarelli, 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.

Anthony Caffarelli, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Missoula, MTNPI 1851587356

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $67,676 of the $76,335 with a category attached, or 88.7%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 62.6% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $33,212 and has fallen 90.0% since, to $3,323 in 2025.

$76,335in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 142 payments — averaging $537.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$48K
Atricure, Inc.$25K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
Medtronic$554
Bolton Medical Inc$547
Artivion, Inc.$472
plus $414 from 5 others

$157,919in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $3096.45 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.

Edwards Lifesciences$156K
Abbott$2K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$67,67689%
Travel & lodging$5,1347%
Food & beverage$3,5255%

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	72	$47,805
Atricure, Inc.	12	$25,006
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	17	$1,536
Medtronic(2 entities)	12	$554
Bolton Medical Inc	8	$547
Artivion, Inc.	9	$472
Biosense Webster, Inc.	8	$202
Hemosonics LLC	1	$150
Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.	1	$27
Abbott	1	$21
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	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.

EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$10,800
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$9,000
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$4,725
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$2,250
GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,010
EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$401
Cardiac non-SynerGraft$293
GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$248
Avalus$165
Quantra QPlus System$150
Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$149
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$136
Penditure$133
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$131
CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$111
ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$111
THORAFLEX HYBRID$106

How this compares

Too few thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Montanato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$299,532

Medicare patients

260

Services billed

589

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
Mupirocin	76	$423

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Missoula

Carlos DuranMissoula$296K
Travis AbichtMissoula$39K
Stewart LongMissoula$17K
Matthew FlemingMissoula$3K
Joseph SchmokerMissoula$810
James MaxwellKalispell$27K
Dimitrios KoudoumasGreat Falls$12K
Michael MaxwellBozeman$6K
Drew KirshnerKalispell$5K
Alexander KraevBillings$5K

See the full list for Montana →

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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