Bakri Kaakeh, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Saginaw, MINPI 1245588326
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $13,758 of the $22,709 with a category attached, or 60.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 70.8% of it on its own, with 31 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $10,009 and has fallen 94.9% since, to $513 in 2025.
Across 147 payments — averaging $154.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$16K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Abiomed$724
- Artivion, Inc.$329
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$268
- plus $1K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,22919%
- Food & beverage$4,70821%
- Education$13,75861%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 19 | $16,072 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 19 | $2,180 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 34 | $1,756 |
| Abiomed | 9 | $724 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 4 | $329 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $268 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 2 | $250 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $124 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $100 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $92 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $83 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $80 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $78 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 4 | $76 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $60 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $46 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Novartis | 2 | $35 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Amgen | 1 | $22 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bracco Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $16 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, 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.
- DAVINCI XI$9,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$6,889
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$695
- Impella$491
- PASCAL$389
- Pleuraflow System with FlowGlide$250
- On-X$153
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$147
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$147
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$139
- CARPENTIER-EDWARDS PERIMOUNT MAGNA MITRAL EASE PERICARDIAL BIOPROSTHESIS$132
- CoreValve Evolut$124
- Carpentier-Edwards PERIMOUNT Magna Mitral Ease Pericardial Valve$118
How this compares
$22,709 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 26 | $2,936 |
| Mupirocin | 62 | $349 |
| Amoxicillin | 15 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Saginaw
- Steven BollingAnn Arbor$41.7M
- Raed AlnajjarDetroit$781K
- Gorav AilawadiAnn Arbor$434K
- Reza DabirDearborn$342K
- Shinichi FukuharaAnn Arbor$236K
- John ParisGrand Rapids$226K
- Zane HammoudDetroit$208K
- Bo YangAnn Arbor$180K
- Matthew RomanoAnn Arbor$177K
- Marc SilverPontiac$166K
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.