Charles Lutz, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Syracuse, NYNPI 1477506582
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 431 payments — averaging $223.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$50K
- Atricure, Inc.$21K
- Intuitive Surgical$14K
- Abiomed$5K
- LSI Solutions Inc$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,7508%
- Travel & lodging$2,0846%
- Food & beverage$16,51249%
- Education$12,40037%
- Gifts$1000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 195 | $50,278 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 14 | $21,200 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 12 | $13,591 |
| Abiomed | 88 | $4,707 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 10 | $2,437 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 70 | $1,520 |
| AOP Health US, LLC | 2 | $1,170 |
| Abbott | 8 | $404 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 2 | $216 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 11 | $202 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $143 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $84 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $64 |
| BD | 1 | $48 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $22 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $19 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $15 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $12 |
| Philips North America LLC | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$13,515
- Octopus$3,163
- Impella$2,800
- Rapiblyk$2,340
- RAM$2,170
- COR KNOT$2,041
- SE$1,190
- Avalus$826
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$599
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$567
- Cardioblate$324
- Penditure$312
- NAVITOR$287
- MiraQ$168
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$166
- Simulus$129
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$111
- LAX$100
How this compares
$96,201 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
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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 Syracuse
- Sanjay SamySyracuse$1.7M
- Karikehalli DilipSyracuse$123K
- Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
- Mathew WilliamsNew York$4.3M
- Nasser AltorkiNew York$2.2M
- Prasad AdusumilliNew York$2M
- David AdamsNew York$1.6M
- Koji TakedaNew York$1.3M
- Gilbert TangNew York$1.2M
- Isaac GeorgeNew York$1.1M
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.