Christopher Ellington
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Pensacola, FLNPI 1154579605
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 324 payments — averaging $74.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Abbott$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$318
- Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc$284
- plus $2K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,38326%
- Food & beverage$10,27243%
- Education$7,50031%
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 | 44 | $12,312 |
| Abbott | 59 | $3,877 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 106 | $3,087 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 38 | $2,365 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 6 | $318 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $284 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $219 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 12 | $219 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $186 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $125 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $96 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $89 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $89 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Convatec Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Stryker | 2 | $63 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 3 | $61 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $55 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $53 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Merck | 2 | $46 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 3 | $41 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $33 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Team 1, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Cook Medical 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$11,041
- Mitra Clip system$1,265
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,216
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$909
- DA VINCI SP$636
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$595
- ALIYA SYSTEM$225
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$224
- PleuraFlow$186
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$156
- MitraClip System$129
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$121
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$119
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$113
- MitraClip$110
- HeartMate Touch$101
How this compares
$24,154 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.
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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 Pensacola
- Michael DefrainPensacola$283K
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Thomas BeaverGainesville$1.9M
- Brian BetheaDelray Beach$1.8M
- Joshua RovinClearwater$1.7M
- Kevin AccolaOrlando$1.7M
- Andrew ShermanTampa$1.6M
- Abelardo VargasSunny Isles Beach$1.1M
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$991K
- Bradley TaylorBoca Raton$904K
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.