Dustin Walters, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Farmington, CTNPI 1114122405
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (33.8%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Lexington Medical, Inc. at 52.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $23,831, 3.1 times the $7,620 reported in 2019.
Across 84 payments — averaging $422.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lexington Medical, Inc.$19K
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Johnson & Johnson$674
- Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc$632
- Noah Medical Corporation$176
- Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.$171
- plus $572 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,00034%
- Travel & lodging$3,50010%
- Food & beverage$10,98731%
- Education$9,00025%
- Gifts$150%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 15 | $18,689 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 39 | $14,589 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 13 | $674 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 9 | $632 |
| Noah Medical Corporation | 1 | $176 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $171 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $156 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $153 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Epizyme, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Merck | 1 | $22 |
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
$35,502 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 70 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Connecticut.
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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 Farmington
- Daniel FuscoFarmington$23K
- Dina Al RameniFarmington$18K
- Chittoor Sai-SudhakarFarmington$11K
- Arshad QuadriW. Hartford$626K
- M Clive RobinsonBridgeport$496K
- Justin BlasbergNew Haven$468K
- Marc PelletierNew Haven$151K
- Colleen PietrasNew Haven$68K
- Michael EbrightStamford$67K
- Prashanth VallabhajosyulaNew Haven$36K
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.