Has Edward Setser, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $14,002 in general payments to Edward Setser, MD across 47 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Edward Setser, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Edward Setser, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Edward Setser, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Idaho Falls, IDNPI 1013977297

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $10,500 of the $14,002 with a category attached, or 75.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 96.7% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $13,707 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $37 in 2023.

$14,002in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 47 payments — averaging $297.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$14K
Medtronic$114
Cvrx, Inc.$87
Abiomed$85
Boston Scientific$57
Edwards Lifesciences$40
plus $81 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,60219%
Food & beverage$9006%
Education$10,50075%

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	31	$13,539
Medtronic	5	$114
Cvrx, Inc.	1	$87
Abiomed	1	$85
Boston Scientific	2	$57
Edwards Lifesciences	2	$40
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$28
Abbott	2	$27
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation	1	$26

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$13,148

How this compares

Too few thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Idahoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$17,323

Medicare patients

123

Services billed

146

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 Idaho Falls

Melissa CheersIdaho Falls$15K
Denis RaleighIdaho Falls$3K
Stephen JonesBoise$316K
Robert FarivarBoise$140K
Julio VasquezPocatello$48K
Ashley MorganBoise$30K
Benedict TaylorBoise$26K
Matthew SchoolfieldBoise$22K
Andrew MesherBoise$8K
Rosemarie SerroneBoise$7K

See the full list for Idaho →

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.

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