Efren Buitrago, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Doral, FLNPI 1134320880
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,568 of the $11,823 with a category attached, or 80.9%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biotronik Inc. at 24.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,021 and has fallen 64.2% since, to $1,082 in 2025.
Across 120 payments — averaging $98.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biotronik Inc.$3K
- Endologix LLC$3K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Medtronic$917
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$911
- Bolton Medical Inc$841
- plus $2K from 16 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $513.79 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.
- GE HealthCare$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,20010%
- Travel & lodging$9688%
- Food & beverage$9,56881%
- Education$871%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biotronik Inc. | 26 | $2,936 |
| Endologix LLC | 9 | $2,586 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 17 | $1,655 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $917 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $911 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 9 | $841 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $473 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 4 | $421 |
| Abbott | 11 | $369 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $251 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $99 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $52 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $38 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $33 |
| Humacyte Global, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $21 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $20 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $15 |
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.
- BioMonitor$1,360
- AFX$1,200
- Rivacor 7 DR-T$632
- Edora$591
- Solia$591
- Acticor$591
- Rivacor$591
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$505
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$373
- Edora 8 DR-T$373
- EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$344
- HemoBlast Bellows$313
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$269
- Relay Grafts$260
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$260
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$208
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$161
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$155
- Endurant$153
- NAVITOR$137
How this compares
$11,823 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.
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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 Doral
- Alfredo RegoDoral$124K
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Barry WintonLargo$687K
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$666K
- John PirrisJacksonville$640K
- Jacques FontaineTampa$630K
- Andrew ShermanTampa$517K
- Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$515K
- Daniel O'HairFort Myers$429K
- Luis HerreraOrlando$409K
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.