Bradley Taylor, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Boca Raton, FLNPI 1417923038
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (53.2%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. accounts for 78.5% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 362 payments — averaging $515.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$146K
- Bolton Medical Inc$22K
- Baxter Healthcare$6K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- plus $3K from 13 others
Across 114 payments — averaging $6292.04 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.
- Vascular Graft Solutions Inc$329K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$198K
- Edwards Lifesciences$82K
- Atricure, Inc.$47K
- Bolton Medical Inc$32K
- Abbott$21K
- plus $8K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$99,19853%
- Speaking & faculty fees$47,20025%
- Travel & lodging$24,53213%
- Food & beverage$15,5878%
- Education$1180%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 193 | $146,474 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 86 | $21,514 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 8 | $5,704 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 21 | $4,243 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $4,000 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 13 | $1,695 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $891 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 9 | $546 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $515 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 9 | $316 |
| Vascular Graft Solutions Inc | 1 | $208 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Aesculap AG | 1 | $91 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $60 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $22 |
| Stryker | 1 | $17 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Product in Development$46,440
- TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$45,994
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$32,250
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$11,742
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$6,019
- Relay Grafts$5,406
- ACTIFUSE$5,360
- ADEPT$5,360
- ALTAPORE$5,360
- Renal - Artis$5,360
- CELSTAT$5,360
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$4,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,000
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$3,756
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$2,570
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,392
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,199
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$835
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$598
- Relay Plus$528
How this compares
$186,634 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.
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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 Boca Raton
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Barry WintonLargo$687K
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$666K
- John PirrisJacksonville$640K
- Jacques FontaineTampa$630K
- Andrew ShermanTampa$517K
- Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$515K
- Daniel O'HairFort Myers$429K
- Luis HerreraOrlando$409K
- Joseph LamelasMiami$379K
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.