Anthony Palazzo, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Johnson City, TNNPI 1629030267
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $17,711 of the $26,160 with a category attached, or 67.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 78.6% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $19,553 and has fallen 96.2% since, to $744 in 2025.
Across 235 payments — averaging $111.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$21K
- Medtronic$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$914
- Zimmer Biomet$331
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$256
- plus $954 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,3669%
- Food & beverage$6,08223%
- Education$17,71168%
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 | 29 | $20,567 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 43 | $1,782 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 77 | $1,356 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 34 | $914 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $331 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 10 | $256 |
| Abbott | 4 | $222 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $170 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $132 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $126 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $42 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $25 |
| Monaghan Medical Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 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.
- DAVINCI XI$17,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,079
- DA VINCI SP$1,034
- Valiant Navion$733
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$139
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$130
- RibFix Advantage$126
- SternaLock 360$126
- RibFix Blu$126
- SternaLock Blu$126
- CoreValve Evolut$121
- Epic$109
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$102
How this compares
$26,160 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 115 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Tennessee.
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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 Johnson City
- Grayson WheatleyNashville$900K
- V ReddyNashville$760K
- Harvey GarrettMemphis$712K
- Mark BonnellChattanooga$141K
- Clayton KaiserNashville$124K
- Sreekumar SubramanianNashville$98K
- Erin GillaspieNashville$95K
- Amber EdwardsNashville$83K
- Danielle SenMemphis$52K
- James HeadrickChattanooga$46K
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.