Has Costanzo Diperna, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $13,688 in general payments to Costanzo Diperna, MD across 24 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 Costanzo Diperna, 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 Costanzo Diperna, 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.

Costanzo Diperna, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1063436731

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $12,667 of the $13,688 with a category attached, or 92.5%. AstraZeneca accounts for 92.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $7,279 and has fallen 97.5% since, to $185 in 2025.

$13,688in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $570.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AstraZeneca$13K
Intuitive Surgical$423
Olympus America Inc.$137
Medtronic$130
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$77
Asensus Surgical, Inc.$70
plus $184 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$12,66793%
Travel & lodging$1961%
Food & beverage$5994%
Education$2262%

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
AstraZeneca	6	$12,667
Intuitive Surgical	3	$423
Olympus America Inc.	1	$137
Medtronic	2	$130
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$77
Asensus Surgical, Inc.	1	$70
Davol Inc.	2	$56
Abbott	2	$40
Johnson & Johnson	2	$39
Atricure, Inc.	2	$35
Avanos Medical	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.

How this compares

$13,688 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$32,718

Medicare patients

Services billed

120

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.

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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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