Has Arnar Geirsson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $218,385 in general payments to Arnar Geirsson, MD across 306 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 Arnar Geirsson, 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 Arnar Geirsson, 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.

Arnar Geirsson, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New York, NYNPI 1306990916

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (51.4%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 53.9% of the total. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$218,385in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 306 payments — averaging $713.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$118K
Medtronic$62K
Intuitive Surgical$28K
Enablecv Inc.$7K
Abbott$1K
Atricure, Inc.$1K
plus $937 from 7 others

$210,033in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 70 payments — averaging $3000.46 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.

Transmedics, Inc.$122K
Medtronic$52K
Atricure, Inc.$31K
Abbott$5K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$112,22351%
Speaking & faculty fees$28,50013%
Travel & lodging$36,49017%
Food & beverage$14,6007%
Education$26,57312%

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	158	$117,753
Medtronic(2 entities)	88	$62,158
Intuitive Surgical	17	$27,840
Enablecv Inc.	6	$7,164
Abbott	12	$1,450
Atricure, Inc.	12	$1,083
Bolton Medical Inc	4	$516
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	3	$244
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$79
Guard Medical Inc.	1	$30
Solventum Corporation	1	$29
Convatec Inc.	1	$26
Cook Medical LLC	1	$15

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$27,447
CG Future$23,100
Avalus$16,478
THRUPORT SYSTEMS INTRACLUDE INTRA-AORTIC OCCLUSION DEVICE$9,021
Mosaic$8,873
Simulus$6,874
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$1,786
Penditure$1,532
MitraClip$1,090
Hancock$1,012
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$494
CARPENTIER-EDWARDS PHYSIO ANNULOPLASTY RING WITH HOLDER - MITRAL$308
Relay Plus$255
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$182
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$165
Relay Grafts$145
Epic$136
Apollo$121
TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$117
CoreValve Evolut$110

How this compares

$218,385 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$228,491

Medicare patients

Services billed

225

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 New York

Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
Gilbert TangNew York$842K
Michael ZervosNew York$811K
Elias ZiasNew York$465K
Isaac GeorgeNew York$395K
Eugene GrossiNew York$350K
Costas BizekisNew York$321K
Brendon StilesNew York$314K
Daniela MolenaNew York$221K
Andrea WolfNew York$157K

See the full list for New York →

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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