Charles Rousseau, DO
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Spartanburg, SCNPI 1982803144
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (42.2%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 39 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 43.1% of the total.
Across 394 payments — averaging $74.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$13K
- Atricure, Inc.$5K
- Medtronic$5K
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- plus $3K from 33 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,4585%
- Travel & lodging$5,37518%
- Food & beverage$12,31642%
- Education$10,01734%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 37 | $12,564 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 105 | $4,719 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 52 | $4,533 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 13 | $1,989 |
| Abiomed | 40 | $1,345 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 28 | $1,096 |
| Abbott | 16 | $437 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 25 | $346 |
| Nuwellis, Inc. | 8 | $289 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 11 | $254 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 2 | $250 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $163 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 5 | $134 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 6 | $121 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 3 | $116 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $80 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $77 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| BD | 2 | $52 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $48 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $43 |
| Cagent Vascular Inc | 3 | $42 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $35 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Stryker | 1 | $25 |
| Talis Clinical LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $18 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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$12,111
- ENDURANT IIS$2,723
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,627
- FLOSEAL$1,561
- Impella$413
- Valiant Captivia$368
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$299
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$267
- Endurant$253
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$195
- Aquadex$155
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$150
- Aeon Endostapler & Echelon Flex Powered Stapler$150
- COSEAL$143
- Mitra Clip system$142
- ForeSight Elite tissue oximetry system$133
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$123
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$123
- FloTrac Sensor$122
- Barostim Neo System$121
How this compares
$29,165 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 83 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in South Carolina.
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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 | 44 | $269 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 45 | $147 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 22 | $99 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 13 | $65 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 12 | $43 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 15 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Spartanburg
- Bradley CeremugaSpartanburg$14K
- Steven LeylandSpartanburg$10K
- Ronald FiguraSpartanburg$9K
- Curtis QuinnCharleston$374K
- Marc KatzCharleston$265K
- Arman KilicCharleston$170K
- Barry GibneyCharleston$39K
- Jacob KlapperCharleston$38K
- John KelemenHilton Head Island$35K
- Kathryn EngelhartdtCharleston$33K
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.