Cristian Sorin Sarateanu, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Carbondale, ILNPI 1033411699
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,265 of the $3,586 with a category attached, or 63.2%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 33.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,566 and has fallen 70.1% since, to $469 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $3,905.
Across 46 payments — averaging $77.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$841
- Abiomed$685
- Baxter Healthcare$245
- Edwards Lifesciences$228
- Cvrx, Inc.$152
- plus $253 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,32237%
- Food & beverage$2,26563%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $1,183 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $841 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $685 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $245 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $228 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $152 |
| Novartis | 7 | $133 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $23 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $12 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$288
- FLOSEAL$245
- CoreValve Evolut$177
- Impella$138
- Barostim Neo System$133
How this compares
$3,586 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Illinois.
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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 Carbondale
- James GrammOlympia Fields$386K
- Jessica DoningtonChicago$314K
- S Christopher MalaisrieChicago$254K
- Patrick McCarthyChicago$241K
- Samuel KimChicago$221K
- Andrew ArndtWinfield$206K
- Douglas JohnstonChicago$205K
- Gianluca TorregrossaChicago$197K
- Valluvan JeevanandamChicago$193K
- Syed HussainKankakee$142K
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.