Edward Robbins, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Memphis, TNNPI 1255330957
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $28,000 of the $30,873 with a category attached, or 90.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.9% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $17,340 and has fallen 98.1% since, to $336 in 2025.
Across 42 payments — averaging $735.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$30K
- AstraZeneca$124
- Medtronic$88
- Boston Scientific$86
- Johnson & Johnson$44
- EMD Serono, Inc.$34
- plus $285 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,8739%
- Education$28,00091%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 19 | $30,212 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $124 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $88 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $86 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $44 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Merck | 1 | $32 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $28 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $26 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $21 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| On Target Laboratories, 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$30,100
How this compares
$30,873 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 115 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Tennessee.
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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 Memphis
- Harvey GarrettMemphis$712K
- Danielle SenMemphis$52K
- Rachel HarrisonMemphis$36K
- Bradley WolfMemphis$32K
- Ganpat ValaulikarMemphis$13K
- Thomas NgMemphis$10K
- Christopher MutrieMemphis$10K
- Glenn SchoettleMemphis$6K
- Grayson WheatleyNashville$900K
- V ReddyNashville$760K
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.