Has David Cable, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $20,236 in general payments to David Cable, MD across 35 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 David Cable, 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 David Cable, 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.

David Cable, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Rockford, ILNPI 1033183728

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $13,000 of the $20,236 with a category attached, or 64.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 69.8% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $12,397 and has fallen 98.3% since, to $208 in 2025.

$20,236in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $578.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$14K
Atricure, Inc.$5K
Artivion, Inc.$867
Cook Medical LLC$201
Boston Scientific$58
Haemonetics Corporation$39
plus $46 from 2 others

$38,842in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $4315.78 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Artivion, Inc.$29K
Cook Research Incorporated$10K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$4,40022%
Travel & lodging$8534%
Food & beverage$1,98310%
Education$13,00064%

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
Intuitive Surgical	14	$14,132
Atricure, Inc.	8	$4,893
Artivion, Inc.	7	$867
Cook Medical LLC	2	$201
Boston Scientific	1	$58
Haemonetics Corporation	1	$39
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$33
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$13

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.

DAVINCI XI$13,000
Da Vinci Surgical System$931
CARDIOGENESIS$304
ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$247
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$221
VASCULAR$140
PHOTOFIX DECELLULARIZED BOVINE PERICARDIUM$140
Zenith Alpha$112
AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$107
BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$107

How this compares

$20,236 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$140,448

Medicare patients

144

Services billed

336

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate	12	$206
Mupirocin	12	$64

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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