RxDoctor Payments Data

Bryan Steinberg, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Rockville, MDNPI 1154346906

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (52.6%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 77.4% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,126, 2.8 times the $2,206 reported in 2019.

$16,174in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 73 payments — averaging $221.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$13K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$929
  • Davol Inc.$452
  • Kerecis Limited$162
  • Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc$158
  • plus $523 from 9 others
$252,532in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $9019.01 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.

  • AstraZeneca$253K

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$2,34915%
  • Food & beverage$5,32433%
  • Education$8,50053%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Intuitive Surgical31$12,515
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.7$1,434
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)15$929
Davol Inc.7$452
Kerecis Limited1$162
Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc2$158
Atricure, Inc.2$125
Bayer1$122
BD1$52
Boston Scientific1$49
On Target Laboratories, Inc1$45
Covidien LP1$41
Lexington Medical, Inc.1$38
Conmed Corporation1$29
LSI Solutions Inc1$22

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

$16,174 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 65 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$155,347
Medicare patients
151
Services billed
467

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Gabapentin19$141
Oxycodone Hcl17$57

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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