Dominic Gallo, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Augusta, GANPI 1891803821
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,277 of the $8,295 with a category attached, or 63.6%. 32 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 42.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,227 and has fallen 74.5% since, to $824 in 2025.
Across 134 payments — averaging $61.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abiomed$845
- Johnson & Johnson$585
- AstraZeneca$208
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$180
- plus $1K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,97436%
- Food & beverage$5,27764%
- Education$441%
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 25 | $3,546 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 28 | $1,631 |
| Abiomed | 11 | $845 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 10 | $585 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $208 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 12 | $180 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $144 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $143 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $137 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $130 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| Abbott | 3 | $72 |
| Merck | 3 | $59 |
| Stryker | 2 | $56 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $52 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $39 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $38 |
| BD | 1 | $38 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Novartis | 1 | $30 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $25 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $21 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $18 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 1 | $13 |
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.
- EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$1,597
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$1,124
- Micra$1,081
- Impella$609
- Monarch Platform$339
- Avalus$227
- PREVENA$143
- V.A.C. VERAFLO CLEANSE CHOICE$143
- V.A.C. GRANUFOAM$143
- ACTIV.A.C.$143
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$128
- TAGRISSO$125
- Progel Applicator Spray Tips$112
How this compares
$8,295 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 144 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Georgia.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 11 | $108 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Augusta
- Timothy HunterAugusta$22K
- Richard LeeAugusta$19K
- Vijaykumar PatelAugusta$16K
- Preston SparksAugusta$9K
- William KitchensAugusta$9K
- Jeremy LondonSavannah$1.6M
- Vinod ThouraniMarietta$1.2M
- Manu SanchetiAtlanta$805K
- John PuskasAtlanta$332K
- Douglas MurphyAtlanta$254K
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.