RxDoctor Payments Data

David Spurlock, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Orlando, FLNPI 1700914348

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 69.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,382 and has fallen 64.3% since, to $850 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.

$7,484in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 66 payments — averaging $113.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Atricure, Inc.$5K
  • Medtronic$795
  • Edwards Lifesciences$690
  • Abiomed$346
  • Teleflex LLC$183
  • Stryker$146
  • plus $159 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,60021%
  • Travel & lodging$1,47620%
  • Food & beverage$3,99453%
  • Education$4146%

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

$7,484 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$66,202
Medicare patients
73
Services billed
161

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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