Eitan Podgaetz Gliksberg, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Dallas, TXNPI 1689825119
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 125 payments — averaging $361.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$29K
- Intuitive Surgical$14K
- ERBE USA Inc$484
- GI Supply, Inc.$276
- Davol Inc.$252
- Medtronic$200
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20,15045%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,25014%
- Travel & lodging$6,99615%
- Food & beverage$4,78211%
- Education$7,00015%
- Gifts$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 21 | $28,828 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 44 | $13,876 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 6 | $484 |
| GI Supply, Inc. | 1 | $276 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $252 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $200 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $197 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $195 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 6 | $116 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 5 | $105 |
| On Target Laboratories, Inc | 2 | $93 |
| Novocure Inc. | 2 | $84 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $77 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $41 |
| Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Eurofins Viracor, LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $27 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $23 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| AbbVie | 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.
- AERO Stent and Delivery System$17,179
- Da Vinci Surgical System$5,950
- DA VINCI SP$4,000
- ION$3,000
- AERO Stent & del system$350
- AEROmini Stent and Delivery System$190
- ALIMAXX-ES Stent/Delivery System$190
- BIG60 Inflation device$190
- PHASIX$125
- RESOLUTION CLIP$121
- ERBEJET2$120
- AERO-DV Stent & del sys$100
How this compares
$45,187 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Sucralfate | 15 | $960 |
| Rabeprazole Sodium | 22 | $888 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $262 |
| Nystatin | 11 | $257 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 13 | $146 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 17 | $116 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Dallas
- Robert HebelerDallas$1.2M
- Dan MeyerDallas$518K
- Todd DeweyDallas$389K
- Gary SchwartzDallas$317K
- Matthais PeltzDallas$279K
- Michael WaitDallas$245K
- Michael JessenDallas$177K
- Juan MachannafordDallas$164K
- Aldo Rafael-YarihuamanDallas$142K
- Robert SmithPlano$2.9M
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.