Elbert Williams, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New York, NYNPI 1235559857
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 80 payments — averaging $341.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Artivion, Inc.$20K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Aidoc Medical Ltd$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$782
- Bolton Medical Inc$663
- Abbott$623
- plus $898 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,40023%
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,25041%
- Travel & lodging$2,2818%
- Food & beverage$7,38627%
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. | 51 | $19,952 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $2,450 |
| Aidoc Medical Ltd | 2 | $1,950 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 7 | $782 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 4 | $663 |
| Abbott | 5 | $623 |
| Viz.ai, Inc. | 1 | $224 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $177 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $173 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $139 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $103 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $81 |
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.
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$13,365
- Jotec Products$2,825
- PROLENE$2,450
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$2,338
- Briefcase$1,950
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$1,679
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$1,120
- PHOTOFIX DECELLULARIZED BOVINE PERICARDIUM$872
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$721
- Epic$583
- Grafts$494
- Viz.AI LVO$224
- HemoBlast Bellows$177
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$169
- THORAFLEX HYBRID$169
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$169
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$142
- Zilver PTX$139
- STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$122
- Avalus$103
How this compares
$27,318 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
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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 New York
- Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
- Mathew WilliamsNew York$4.3M
- Nasser AltorkiNew York$2.2M
- Prasad AdusumilliNew York$2M
- David AdamsNew York$1.6M
- Koji TakedaNew York$1.3M
- Gilbert TangNew York$1.2M
- Isaac GeorgeNew York$1.1M
- Michael ZervosNew York$811K
- Leonard GirardiNew York$728K
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.