David Talton, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Tupelo, MSNPI 1629078746
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.8%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 44 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.2%.
Across 322 payments — averaging $71.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$5K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Abiomed$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- plus $6K from 38 others
Across 29 payments — averaging $6282.33 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.
- Atricure, Inc.$128K
- Edwards Lifesciences$49K
- Abbott$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9054%
- Travel & lodging$8,86338%
- Food & beverage$13,37458%
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.
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.
- MitraClip$1,866
- Mitra Clip system$1,817
- Impella$1,275
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$1,023
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$1,005
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$931
- RIBFIX BLU ADVANTAGE$267
- ECM Patch,Pouch$252
- EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$246
- MitraClip System$236
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$232
- AlphaVac$170
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$158
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$136
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$136
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$135
- FLOSEAL$125
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$115
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$112
- KONECT RESILIA$104
How this compares
$23,141 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 42 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Mississippi.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Tupelo
- Vishal SachdevTupelo$35K
- Evan GarnerTupelo$11K
- Dakota KingTupelo$6K
- John NeillTupelo$3K
- Robert DerveloyTupelo$2K
- Lacy McClainHattiesburg$97K
- Galen OhnmachtJackson$83K
- Pierre de DelvaJackson$71K
- William SmithOcean Springs$34K
- William HorsleyColumbus$16K
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.