Christopher Heid
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Dallas, TXNPI 1487041075
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 120 payments — averaging $568.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Genentech, Inc.$56K
- Edwards Lifesciences$6K
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Abiomed$708
- Kls-martin L.p.$523
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$316
- plus $2K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,77840%
- Food & beverage$7,13960%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Genentech, Inc. | 5 | $56,312 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 58 | $5,933 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 20 | $2,864 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $708 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 5 | $523 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 5 | $316 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 6 | $306 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $286 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $263 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $198 |
| Stryker | 1 | $125 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $112 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $110 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $49 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Xvivo Perfusion Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $29 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
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.
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$2,011
- Kerecis SurgiClose$1,038
- Impella$680
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$337
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$298
- Kerecis GraftGuide$260
- Avalus$198
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$172
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$171
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$154
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$125
- HeartString III Proximal Seal$121
- FLOSEAL$114
- Capiox FX Advance Hollow Fiber Oxygenator w Integrated AF w Hardshell Res.$112
- Terumo Advanced Perfusion System 1$112
- CDI Blood Parameter Monitoring System 550$112
- HemoBlast Bellows$110
How this compares
$68,229 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.
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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 Dallas
- Robert HebelerDallas$1.2M
- Dan MeyerDallas$518K
- Todd DeweyDallas$389K
- Gary SchwartzDallas$317K
- Matthais PeltzDallas$279K
- Michael WaitDallas$245K
- Michael JessenDallas$177K
- Juan MachannafordDallas$164K
- Aldo Rafael-YarihuamanDallas$142K
- Robert SmithPlano$2.9M
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.