Antonio Laudito
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Columbus, GANPI 1447401450
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 90.8% of the total across 132 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 27.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,653 and has fallen 74.4% since, to $679 in 2025.
Across 132 payments — averaging $60.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$643
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$520
- Medtronic$401
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7399%
- Food & beverage$7,30791%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 52 | $2,205 |
| Abbott | 20 | $1,568 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 12 | $1,491 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 10 | $643 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 6 | $520 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $401 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $279 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 4 | $254 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $177 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $148 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $95 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $68 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $67 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $43 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $43 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $20 |
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$613
- SternaLock Blu$570
- GIAPREZA$452
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$450
- MitraClip$249
- CoreValve Evolut$215
- NAVITOR$201
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$145
- Mitra Clip system$145
- Perceval$126
- Epic$111
- Virtuosaph$104
- CDI$104
- Capiox$104
- Sentinel$102
How this compares
$8,046 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 144 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Georgia.
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Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Columbus
- Melissa LevackColumbus$42K
- Jeffery JohnsonColumbus$15K
- Jeremy LondonSavannah$1.6M
- Vinod ThouraniMarietta$1.2M
- Manu SanchetiAtlanta$805K
- John PuskasAtlanta$332K
- Douglas MurphyAtlanta$254K
- Daniel MillerMarietta$237K
- Ezequiel MolinaAtlanta$215K
- Gaetano PaoneAtlanta$134K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.