David Evans, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Indianapolis, INNPI 1174515910
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 68 payments — averaging $24.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$319
- Intuitive Surgical$228
- Edwards Lifesciences$219
- Hemosonics LLC$185
- Abiomed$145
- Johnson & Johnson$77
- plus $519 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,693100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 16 | $319 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $228 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 10 | $219 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 7 | $185 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $145 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $77 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $74 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 3 | $64 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Nuwellis, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $34 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $31 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $29 |
| Stryker | 1 | $21 |
| BD | 1 | $20 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $14 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,693 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 127 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Indiana.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 53 | $166 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Indianapolis
- Marc GerdischIndianapolis$2M
- David HeimansohnIndianapolis$1.5M
- Kenneth KeslerIndianapolis$298K
- Andrew BarksdaleIndianapolis$158K
- Joel CorveraIndianapolis$145K
- Manesh ParikshakIndianapolis$61K
- Ashish PulikalIndianapolis$36K
- Giorgio ZanottiIndianapolis$34K
- Nakul ValsangkarIndianapolis$33K
- Karen RiegerIndianapolis$28K
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.