David Kaczorowski, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1780809889
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $37,550 of the $46,827 with a category attached, or 80.2%. Medtronic accounts for 63.0% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $21,183 and has fallen 97.9% since, to $438 in 2025.
Across 87 payments — averaging $538.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$29K
- Abiomed$14K
- Transmedics, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$615
- Xvivo Perfusion Inc.$576
- Atricure, Inc.$480
- plus $241 from 4 others
Across 27 payments — averaging $2946.28 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.
- Abbott$38K
- Xvivo Perfusion Inc.$36K
- Transmedics, Inc.$6K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,1252%
- Speaking & faculty fees$37,55080%
- Travel & lodging$3,8738%
- Food & beverage$4,2799%
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) | 47 | $29,489 |
| Abiomed | 16 | $13,584 |
| Transmedics, Inc. | 3 | $1,842 |
| Abbott | 7 | $615 |
| Xvivo Perfusion Inc. | 3 | $576 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $480 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $189 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- HeartWare HVAD$27,418
- Impella$13,270
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$1,790
- XVIVO Perfusion System (XPS)$346
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$305
- Valiant Captivia$177
- Mosaic$173
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$159
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$153
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$146
- Relay Plus$144
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$131
- NAVITOR$117
How this compares
$46,827 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bisoprolol Fumarate | 11 | $434 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 17 | $322 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 13 | $115 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 16 | $97 |
| Mupirocin | 16 | $83 |
| Potassium Chloride | 13 | $59 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Pittsburgh
- Inderpal SarkariaPittsburgh$248K
- Benny WekslerPittsburgh$161K
- Nicholas BakerPittsburgh$138K
- Walter McGregorPittsburgh$124K
- Rajeev DhuparPittsburgh$65K
- Robert KormosPittsburgh$53K
- Hiroyuki TsukuiPittsburgh$45K
- Hiran FernandoPittsburgh$34K
- Stephen BaileyPittsburgh$33K
- Joseph BavariaAllentown$1.7M
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.