RxDoctor Payments Data

Daniel Rinewalt, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Orlando, FLNPI 1235367475

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,412 of the $3,301 with a category attached, or 73.1%. Abiomed accounts for 73.6% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,430 and has fallen 92.4% since, to $185 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $6,925.

$3,301in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 27 payments — averaging $122.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abiomed$2K
  • Transmedics, Inc.$439
  • Atricure, Inc.$140
  • Getinge USA Sales, LLC$108
  • Livanova USA, Inc.$53
  • Abbott$50
  • plus $81 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$45014%
  • Travel & lodging$43913%
  • Food & beverage$2,41273%

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

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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.

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

$3,301 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$107,953
Medicare patients
113
Services billed
773

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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