Carl Geraldson
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Alabaster, ALNPI 1659767671
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,955 of the $8,250 with a category attached, or 60.1%. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Artivion, Inc. at 31.5% of the total.
Across 105 payments — averaging $78.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Artivion, Inc.$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Bolton Medical Inc$1K
- Medtronic$528
- Baxter Healthcare$442
- Abiomed$404
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,29540%
- Food & beverage$4,95560%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Artivion, Inc. | 16 | $2,596 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 20 | $1,417 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 7 | $1,374 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $528 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $442 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $404 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $327 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $192 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $173 |
| Stryker | 1 | $169 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 4 | $109 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $90 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $87 |
| Novartis | 3 | $55 |
| Amgen | 3 | $48 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $14 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
| ZOLL Medical Corporation | 1 | $11 |
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.
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$647
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$634
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$598
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$498
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$393
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$369
- TISSEEL$367
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$366
- HemoSphere$295
- Valiant Captivia$276
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$169
- Zenith Alpha$125
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$124
- Impella$122
How this compares
$8,250 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 68 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Alabama.
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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 Alabaster
- Kyle EudaileyBirmingham$184K
- Carlton RandlemanBirmingham$161K
- James DaviesBirmingham$99K
- Parvez SultanVestavia$81K
- Frans VanwagenbergHuntsville$68K
- Andrew PapoyBirmingham$63K
- Sara PereiraBirmingham$62K
- Tyler WahlVestavia$53K
- Panayotis VardasBirmingham$49K
- Clifton LewisBirmingham$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.