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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,080 in general payments to David Kress, MD across 32 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 Kress, 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 Kress, 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 Kress, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Milwaukee, WINPI 1619938701

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,835 of the $7,080 with a category attached, or 68.3%. Philips North America LLC accounts for 66.0% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$7,080in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $221.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Philips North America LLC$5K
Atricure, Inc.$2K
Baxter Healthcare$48
Elutia, Inc.$4

$91,111in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $3141.76 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.

Medtronic$91K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,05015%
Travel & lodging$4,83568%
Food & beverage$1,19517%

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
Philips North America LLC	13	$4,672
Atricure, Inc.	17	$2,356
Baxter Healthcare	1	$48
Elutia, Inc.	1	$4

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.

TightRail$1,527
(9520) IGT Devices Undivided$1,478
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,057
(9124) LM Undivided$892
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$694
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$694
IGT Devices Und$603
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$226
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$225
ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$145

How this compares

$7,080 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 97 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$42,026

Medicare patients

Services billed

130

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
Amoxicillin	14	$16

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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