Azeem Khan, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1659560597
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (39.5%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 37 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.3%. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $5,901 and has fallen 73.6% since, to $1,558 in 2025.
Across 214 payments — averaging $112.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Medtronic$5K
- Abbott$3K
- Abiomed$2K
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- plus $4K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5937%
- Travel & lodging$8,94837%
- Food & beverage$9,50440%
- Education$4,00017%
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 | 15 | $5,599 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 52 | $5,255 |
| Abbott | 28 | $3,134 |
| Abiomed | 25 | $2,353 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $1,940 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 18 | $1,837 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $572 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $408 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 4 | $392 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $371 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $297 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $174 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $155 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 3 | $150 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Merck | 3 | $144 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $127 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $124 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $114 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $93 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $88 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 3 | $78 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $66 |
| Stryker | 2 | $65 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 3 | $47 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $44 |
| GSK | 2 | $38 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $33 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $22 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 1 | $19 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $14 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $13 |
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$5,212
- FLOSEAL$1,725
- COSEAL$1,700
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,640
- Tri-Ad$1,633
- TACHOSIL$1,593
- TISSEEL$1,593
- Impella$1,513
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,209
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$1,011
- Mitra Clip system$860
- Simulus$599
- VALVULOTOM$453
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$449
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$408
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$373
- GlideLight$340
- On-X$317
- PleuraFlow$147
- Avalus$140
How this compares
$24,045 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 75 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Louisiana.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 11 | $113 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Baton Rouge
- Emily CassidyBaton Rouge$1.3M
- Nicholas LeblancBaton Rouge$70K
- Imtiaz KhanBaton Rouge$42K
- Shafi MohamedBaton Rouge$16K
- William BoedefeldBaton Rouge$13K
- Jared MurdockBaton Rouge$10K
- Terry StellyBaton Rouge$8K
- Thomas MarsdenBaton Rouge$2K
- Carl RigbyBaton Rouge$2K
- Walter Bringaze IiiBaton Rouge$2K
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.