Charles Carmeci, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Medford, ORNPI 1730237082
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.8% of the total across 120 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 29 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in OR, where the typical reported total is $5,462.
Across 120 payments — averaging $26.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$424
- Edwards Lifesciences$404
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$385
- Intuitive Surgical$301
- Medtronic$286
- Clearflow Inc.$250
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$381%
- Food & beverage$3,15099%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 14 | $424 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 13 | $404 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 24 | $385 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $301 |
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 9 | $286 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $250 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 10 | $218 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $154 |
| Abbott | 5 | $125 |
| Solventum Corporation | 4 | $79 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 6 | $77 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $74 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $65 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $28 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $28 |
| Cerus Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $23 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $22 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $18 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $18 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $16 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 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.
- PleuraFlow$250
- VITALFLOW CONSOLE$147
How this compares
$3,188 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 52 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Oregon.
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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 Medford
- Nicholas EngstromMedford$2K
- George WilkinsonMedford$389
- David FolsomMedford$382
- Sanjeev SharmaMedford$254
- Steven DemeesterPortland$566K
- Howard SongPortland$64K
- Castigliano BhamidipatiPortland$52K
- Areo SaffarzadehPortland$51K
- Jonathan DanielPortland$49K
- Robert DubosePortland$45K
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.