Christopher Burke, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Seattle, WANPI 1720387368
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (46.3%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Artivion, Inc. accounts for 87.8% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $7,836 and has fallen 52.0% since, to $3,760 in 2025.
Across 61 payments — averaging $308.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Artivion, Inc.$17K
- Edwards Lifesciences$993
- Medtronic$425
- Abbott$394
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$315
- Bolton Medical Inc$125
- plus $51 from 2 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $4858.67 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$8K
- Medtronic$6K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,72546%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,00021%
- Travel & lodging$2,54514%
- Food & beverage$3,46918%
- Education$870%
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. | 42 | $16,523 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 8 | $993 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $425 |
| Abbott | 2 | $394 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $315 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $125 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $37 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$8,179
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$5,423
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$3,434
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$798
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$540
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$455
- Epic$203
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$191
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$131
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$107
How this compares
$18,826 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 105 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Washington.
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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 Seattle
- Glenn BarnhartSeattle$577K
- Eric VallieresSeattle$202K
- Eric LehrSeattle$72K
- Thomas VargheseSeattle$22K
- Shakirat OyetunjiSeattle$21K
- Mohamed EldeirySeattle$17K
- Ioannis John DemarakosSeattle$15K
- Peter WhiteSeattle$15K
- Joel SternbachSeattle$13K
- Adam BogradSeattle$13K
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.