Has Brannon Hyde, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $214,122 in general payments to Brannon Hyde, MD across 544 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Brannon Hyde, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Brannon Hyde, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Brannon Hyde, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Austin, TXNPI 1487858056

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $172,750 of the $214,122 with a category attached, or 80.7%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 81.3% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $104,908 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $347 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in TX 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.

$214,122in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 544 payments — averaging $393.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$174K
Abbott$28K
Medtronic$3K
Elutia, Inc.$2K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
Abiomed$1K
plus $5K from 18 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$172,75081%
Speaking & faculty fees$2,0001%
Travel & lodging$19,1449%
Food & beverage$20,2289%

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.	247	$174,087
Abbott	96	$27,642
Medtronic(2 entities)	78	$3,172
Elutia, Inc.	25	$1,898
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	20	$1,302
Abiomed	15	$1,149
Johnson & Johnson	19	$1,082
Ancora Heart, Inc.	1	$624
Edwards Lifesciences	9	$589
Cvrx, Inc.	6	$562
Zimmer Biomet	6	$479
Bolton Medical Inc	3	$308
Davol Inc.	5	$302
Artivion, Inc.	1	$189
Kls-martin L.p.	2	$187
Cook Medical LLC	1	$127
Boston Scientific	2	$124
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$121
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$90
Terumo Medical Corporation	1	$28
Kerecis Limited	1	$21
Mission Medical Distribution, LLC	1	$17
Haemonetics Corporation	1	$14
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	1	$7

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$129,630
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$57,211
MitraClip$22,249
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX, MODELS$19,629
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$7,843
Mitra Clip system$2,547
ECM Patch,Pouch$1,441
Impella$806
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$558
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$539
CoreValve Evolut$509
Epic$506
Barostim Neo System$462
EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$432
ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$404
C3 Delivery System$263
Mega Soft$223
SternaLock 360$221
STRATAFIX$220
BioGlue$189

How this compares

$214,122 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$137,890

Medicare patients

Services billed

248

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 Austin

Faraz KerendiAustin$906K
Jonathan YangAustin$178K
Masahiro OnoAustin$119K
Eric HoenickeAustin$61K
Jeffrey McNeilAustin$49K
Brendan DewanAustin$46K
Robert HebelerDallas$723K
Michael ReardonHouston$713K
Danny RamzyHouston$527K
Scott OlssonCypress$357K

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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.

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