Bradley Litke, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Evansville, INNPI 1992790612
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,334 of the $7,470 with a category attached, or 71.4%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 56.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,143 and has fallen 71.5% since, to $1,181 in 2025.
Across 101 payments — averaging $73.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Abbott$235
- Medtronic$222
- Vantive US Healthcare LLC$148
- Avanos Medical$139
- plus $622 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,13629%
- Food & beverage$5,33471%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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. | 28 | $4,184 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 49 | $1,920 |
| Abbott | 2 | $235 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $222 |
| Vantive US Healthcare LLC | 1 | $148 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $139 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $130 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $121 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $117 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $79 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $42 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| Bayer | 1 | $15 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $14 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $13 |
| Amgen | 1 | $12 |
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.
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,544
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,532
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,246
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$1,068
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$344
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$277
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$184
- Renal - Acute$148
- ON-Q* PUMP AND ACCESSORIES$139
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$135
- Impella$121
- V.A.C. INSTILL$101
- PREVENA$101
How this compares
$7,470 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 127 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Indiana.
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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 Evansville
- Michael McLeanEvansville$18K
- Michael ThomasEvansville$16K
- Ulfur GudjonssonEvansville$9K
- Marc GerdischIndianapolis$1.4M
- Jason FrazierMunster$574K
- James KellyGranger$242K
- Sina MoainieCarmel$184K
- Samuel JacobMuncie$182K
- Andrew BarksdaleIndianapolis$158K
- Manesh ParikshakIndianapolis$61K
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.