Balakrishnan Mahesh, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Hershey, PANPI 1639586381
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (48.0%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 58.2% of the total.
Across 211 payments — averaging $140.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$17K
- Edwards Lifesciences$6K
- Abbott$3K
- Medtronic$1K
- Abiomed$1K
- Baxter Healthcare$386
- plus $348 from 4 others
Across 25 payments — averaging $5065.40 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.
- Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$127K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,00014%
- Travel & lodging$14,22448%
- Food & beverage$11,40138%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 109 | $17,246 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 23 | $6,028 |
| Abbott | 25 | $2,690 |
| Medtronic | 29 | $1,482 |
| Abiomed | 17 | $1,445 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $386 |
| Bioventrix, Inc. | 1 | $154 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $152 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $27 |
| Getinge USA Sales, 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.
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$9,627
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$5,544
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$4,561
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$3,311
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$2,592
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,826
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$1,367
- Impella$1,137
- Avalus$655
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$260
- SherpaPak$152
- LIVERguard$152
- LUNGguard$152
- BaroGuard$152
- PancreasPak$152
- COSEAL$147
- HeartMate Touch$114
- PREVELEAK$108
How this compares
$29,625 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 27 | $159 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 28 | $112 |
| Amoxicillin | 18 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Hershey
- Abdulrhman ElnaggarHershey$40K
- Michael ReedHershey$30K
- Behzad SoleimaniHershey$24K
- Joseph BavariaAllentown$1.7M
- Basel RamlawiWynnewood$1.1M
- Patrick RossWynnewood$956K
- Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
- Scott GoldmanWynnewood$354K
- Frank BowenCamp Hill$310K
- Michael AckerPhiladelphia$271K
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.