Awad El-Ashry, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Buffalo, NYNPI 1881824712
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 244 payments — averaging $83.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$3K
- Artivion, Inc.$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Arthrex$3K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$2K
- plus $3K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,00020%
- Travel & lodging$7,76138%
- Food & beverage$8,55842%
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 | 60 | $4,619 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 31 | $2,981 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 12 | $2,556 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 39 | $2,527 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $2,500 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 7 | $1,838 |
| Abiomed | 41 | $1,422 |
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 4 | $310 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $244 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $206 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 1 | $134 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $132 |
| Abbott | 5 | $129 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $85 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $75 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $67 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $52 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $52 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $49 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $47 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 2 | $43 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $42 |
| Werfen USA LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Stryker | 1 | $32 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $20 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- LifeVest$2,043
- Perceval$1,751
- MICS Instruments$1,751
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$1,140
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$1,135
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$1,120
- Memo4D$995
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$980
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$411
- Impella$256
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$142
- Barostim Neo System$140
- WatchPATONE$134
- ACC2 CARDIAC CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$122
How this compares
$20,319 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
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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 Buffalo
- Chukwumere NwoguBuffalo$969K
- Nathaniel IvanickBuffalo$425K
- Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
- Mathew WilliamsNew York$4.3M
- Nasser AltorkiNew York$2.2M
- Prasad AdusumilliNew York$2M
- Sanjay SamySyracuse$1.7M
- David AdamsNew York$1.6M
- Koji TakedaNew York$1.3M
- Gilbert TangNew York$1.2M
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.