Brian Kilmartin, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Dallas, TXNPI 1679916944
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (47.6%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 29.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $4,937 and has fallen 83.5% since, to $814 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $5,866.
Across 78 payments — averaging $99.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abiomed$907
- Medtronic$601
- BD$187
- plus $574 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,10127%
- Food & beverage$3,68648%
- Education$1,95825%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 24 | $2,257 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $1,706 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 10 | $1,512 |
| Abiomed | 13 | $907 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $601 |
| BD | 1 | $187 |
| Abbott | 5 | $130 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $100 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $61 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Alliance Medical | 1 | $43 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Arjo Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Stryker | 1 | $17 |
| Medistim USA, 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.
How this compares
$7,745 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.
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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 | 20 | $114 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 24 | $89 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Dallas
- Robert HebelerDallas$723K
- Michael WaitDallas$187K
- Juan MachannafordDallas$164K
- Aldo Rafael-YarihuamanDallas$142K
- Todd DeweyDallas$128K
- Gary SchwartzDallas$77K
- Jaye WestonDallas$70K
- Brandon HillDallas$53K
- Ryan DaviesDallas$51K
- Dan MeyerDallas$47K
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.