Bradley Ceremuga, DO
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Spartanburg, SCNPI 1679957542
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (38.8%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 37 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 54.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,673, more than ten times the $171 reported in 2020.
Across 135 payments — averaging $101.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Biomerieux Inc$606
- Abiomed$369
- Baxter Healthcare$234
- plus $2K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6064%
- Travel & lodging$4,41732%
- Food & beverage$3,38525%
- Education$5,33739%
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 | $7,424 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 23 | $2,095 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 20 | $1,401 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $606 |
| Abiomed | 11 | $369 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 8 | $234 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $186 |
| Abbott | 7 | $151 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $116 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $100 |
| BD | 4 | $92 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $83 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 2 | $73 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $68 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $60 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $53 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $50 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Stryker | 1 | $44 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Werfen USA LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $19 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $13 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $13 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| AstraZeneca | 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$4,803
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$864
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$315
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$165
- Rotating Surgical Punches$116
- Myo/WireUltra-Thin Temporary Pacing Wires$116
- FLOSEAL$106
- Valiant Captivia$101
How this compares
$13,745 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 83 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in South Carolina.
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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 | 25 | $114 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 24 | $79 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 12 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Spartanburg
- Charles RousseauSpartanburg$29K
- Steven LeylandSpartanburg$10K
- Ronald FiguraSpartanburg$9K
- Curtis QuinnCharleston$374K
- Marc KatzCharleston$265K
- Arman KilicCharleston$170K
- Barry GibneyCharleston$39K
- Jacob KlapperCharleston$38K
- John KelemenHilton Head Island$35K
- Kathryn EngelhartdtCharleston$33K
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.