Has Chigozirim Ekeke, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $92,399 in general payments to Chigozirim Ekeke, MD across 127 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Chigozirim Ekeke, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Chigozirim Ekeke, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Chigozirim Ekeke, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Ann Arbor, MINPI 1275911265

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $71,897 of the $92,399 with a category attached, or 77.8%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 67.6% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$92,399in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 127 payments — averaging $727.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$63K
Johnson & Johnson$17K
Intuitive Surgical$5K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
AstraZeneca$1K
Cook Incorporated$1K
plus $2K from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$71,89778%
Travel & lodging$11,33412%
Food & beverage$5,6686%
Education$3,5004%

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
Atricure, Inc.	57	$62,506
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	15	$16,740
Intuitive Surgical	13	$5,341
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	19	$3,432
AstraZeneca	3	$1,475
Cook Incorporated	1	$1,125
Medtronic	14	$890
Elucent Medical	2	$482
Davol Inc.	1	$158
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$146
On Target Laboratories, Inc	1	$104

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.

ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$51,509
Echelon Flex$16,209
ECHELON ENDOPATH$16,178
Enseal$16,064
Harmonic$16,064
DA VINCI SP$2,500
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$2,022
Da Vinci Surgical System$1,605
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,539
IMFINZI$1,343
DAVINCI XI$1,000
MATRIXRIB$607
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$427
Signia$381
PROGEL$158
VersaStep$153
ENDO GIA ULTRA$119
Cytalux$104

How this compares

$92,399 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$78,012

Medicare patients

Services billed

228

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 Ann Arbor

Steven BollingAnn Arbor$41.7M
Gorav AilawadiAnn Arbor$434K
Shinichi FukuharaAnn Arbor$236K
Bo YangAnn Arbor$180K
Matthew RomanoAnn Arbor$177K
Himanshu PatelAnn Arbor$58K
Rishindra ReddyAnn Arbor$58K
Barbara HamiltonAnn Arbor$34K
Kenneth HasslerAnn Arbor$31K
Tessa WattAnn Arbor$22K

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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.

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