Dean Lomago, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Butler, PANPI 1336117712
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,277 of the $5,563 with a category attached, or 76.9%. Medtronic accounts for 69.7% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,409, more than ten times the $48 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $5,177.
Across 47 payments — averaging $118.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Abiomed$744
- Atrium Medical Corporation$400
- Atricure, Inc.$128
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$120
- United Therapeutics Corporation$100
- plus $194 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,27777%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2555%
- Travel & lodging$55810%
- Food & beverage$4548%
- Education$200%
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) | 29 | $3,877 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $744 |
| Atrium Medical Corporation | 1 | $400 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $100 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $100 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $35 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $27 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- PACIFIC XTREME$1,045
- ClosureRFS$728
- Impella$558
- AMPLATZ GOOSE NECK$528
- FLIXENE$400
- Nitrex$260
- TrailBlazer$168
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$128
- GORE Molding Occlusion Balloon Catheter$120
How this compares
$5,563 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th 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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Butler
- Joseph BavariaAllentown$1.7M
- Basel RamlawiWynnewood$1.1M
- Patrick RossWynnewood$956K
- Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
- Scott GoldmanWynnewood$354K
- Frank BowenCamp Hill$310K
- Michael AckerPhiladelphia$271K
- Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$252K
- Inderpal SarkariaPittsburgh$248K
- Nimesh DesaiPhiladelphia$203K
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.