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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $835,038 in general payments to Edward Soltesz, MD across 804 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 Soltesz, 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 Soltesz, 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 Soltesz, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Cleveland, OHNPI 1629015730

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (46.0%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abiomed at 45.0% of the total. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$835,038in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 804 payments — averaging $1038.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abiomed$376K
Abbott$236K
Atricure, Inc.$182K
Edwards Lifesciences$26K
Dilon Technologies, Inc.$14K
JACE Medical LLC$499
plus $807 from 10 others

$338,085in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $8245.96 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Abbott$336K
Medtronic$2K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$354,38042%
Speaking & faculty fees$383,93846%
Travel & lodging$78,3859%
Food & beverage$18,3362%

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
Abiomed	271	$375,868
Abbott	228	$236,469
Atricure, Inc.	246	$181,936
Edwards Lifesciences	25	$25,767
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	14	$13,691
JACE Medical LLC	2	$499
Corcym Inc	3	$200
Medtronic(2 entities)	6	$184
Biom'up SA	1	$134
Bolton Medical Inc	1	$75
Baxter Healthcare	2	$63
Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC	1	$42
Nexus Medical Technologies LLC	1	$33
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$32
Stryker	1	$27
Johnson & Johnson	1	$16

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.

Impella$337,596
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$112,683
Epic$74,370
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$41,877
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$38,597
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$33,224
MitraClip$32,422
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$26,541
Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$20,979
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$18,911
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$18,792
HemoBlast Bellows$13,633
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$10,679
CardioMEMS HF System$7,500
CARDIOMEMS$7,500
HeartMate$6,101
NAVITOR$6,000
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$5,539
Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$2,212
Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring$799

How this compares

$835,038 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$285,173

Medicare patients

119

Services billed

350

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 Cleveland

Alejandro BribriescoCleveland$968K
Alan Marc GillinovCleveland$926K
Salil DeoCleveland$419K
Tomislav MihaljevicCleveland$387K
Christopher ToweCleveland$370K
Eric RoselliCleveland$253K
Cristian BaezaCleveland$237K
Zhen-Yu TongCleveland$222K
Sudish MurthyCleveland$120K
Pablo Ruda VegaCleveland$98K

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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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