Has Elaine Tseng received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,296 in general payments to Elaine Tseng across 45 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 Elaine Tseng 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 Elaine Tseng 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.

Elaine Tseng

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · San Francisco, CANPI 1649243197

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Artivion, Inc. at 31.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,997, 3.4 times the $877 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $4,430.

$5,296in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 45 payments — averaging $117.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Artivion, Inc.$2K
Medtronic$1K
Abbott$1K
Edwards Lifesciences$988
Atricure, Inc.$289
Zimmer Biomet$92
plus $24 from 1 others

$473,317in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $59,165 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.

Artivion, Inc.$347K
Amgen$126K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,73752%
Food & beverage$2,55948%

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
Artivion, Inc.	7	$1,660
Medtronic(2 entities)	13	$1,227
Abbott	9	$1,017
Edwards Lifesciences	12	$988
Atricure, Inc.	2	$289
Zimmer Biomet	1	$92
Boston Scientific	1	$24

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.

TRICLIP$749
CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$580
AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$557
On-X$283
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$237
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$237
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$237
ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$237
DISSECTOR$237
BioGlue$197
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$181
ENDURANT IIS$180
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$178
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$168
Octopus$151

How this compares

$5,296 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.

See all thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California →

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in San Francisco

Gavitt WoodardSan Francisco$135K
Jason SmithSan Francisco$95K
Brett SheridanSan Francisco$72K
Amy FiedlerSan Francisco$67K
Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$875K
Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$764K

See the full list for California →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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