Antonio Sortino, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Mansfield, OHNPI 1043281181
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,945 of the $6,824 with a category attached, or 87.1%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abiomed at 26.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,800 and has fallen 92.5% since, to $284 in 2025.
Across 122 payments — averaging $55.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$2K
- Medtronic$612
- Abbott$522
- Atricure, Inc.$519
- Haemonetics Corporation$511
- Clearflow Inc.$478
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$84612%
- Food & beverage$5,94587%
- Education$330%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 13 | $1,793 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 26 | $612 |
| Abbott | 6 | $522 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 15 | $519 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 8 | $511 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $478 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $440 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $261 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 11 | $256 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 7 | $230 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $183 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $163 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $152 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $115 |
| Amgen | 2 | $111 |
| Stryker | 1 | $99 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $95 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $66 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $59 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $31 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $24 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $24 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $15 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Impella$1,493
- PleuraFlow$478
- CARDIOMEMS$279
- PROGEL$228
- WATCHMAN Access System$137
- ANDEXXA$125
- PORTICO$122
- Watchman$108
- SURGICEL Family of Absorbable Hemostats$107
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$103
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$103
How this compares
$6,824 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.
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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 Mansfield
- Alejandro BribriescoCleveland$968K
- Daniel WatsonColumbus$946K
- Alan Marc GillinovCleveland$926K
- Edward SolteszCleveland$835K
- Eric OkumColumbus$637K
- Michael MorontToledo$543K
- Desmond DsouzaColumbus$487K
- Salil DeoCleveland$419K
- Tomislav MihaljevicCleveland$387K
- Christopher ToweCleveland$370K
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.