Cristian Baeza, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Cleveland, OHNPI 1407310006
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 660 payments — averaging $702.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corcym Inc$224K
- Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$109K
- Medtronic$81K
- Edwards Lifesciences$17K
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$11K
- Abbott$6K
- plus $16K from 23 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corcym Inc | 30 | $224,042 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 20 | $109,000 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 351 | $80,685 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 62 | $17,137 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 19 | $11,328 |
| Abbott | 16 | $5,937 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 33 | $3,256 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 18 | $3,061 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 23 | $2,774 |
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $2,049 |
| Abiomed | 15 | $1,443 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 9 | $931 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 5 | $497 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 10 | $277 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 6 | $265 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 9 | $258 |
| Stryker | 4 | $180 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $108 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $82 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 2 | $50 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Argentum Medical | 2 | $33 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $26 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $18 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$463,660 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.
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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 Cleveland
- Edward SolteszCleveland$1.2M
- Alan Marc GillinovCleveland$1M
- Alejandro BribriescoCleveland$968K
- Alan MarkowitzCleveland$951K
- Eric RoselliCleveland$933K
- Salil DeoCleveland$419K
- Tomislav MihaljevicCleveland$387K
- Christopher ToweCleveland$370K
- Zhen-Yu TongCleveland$269K
- Patrick VargoCleveland$256K
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.