Emily Cassidy, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1548561194
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,710 payments — averaging $778.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$872K
- Zimmer Biomet$205K
- Atricure, Inc.$74K
- Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$73K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$60K
- Johnson & Johnson$26K
- plus $21K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$233,75919%
- Speaking & faculty fees$259,75021%
- Travel & lodging$215,90417%
- Food & beverage$47,5254%
- Education$500,73840%
- Gifts$610%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 1,140 | $871,829 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 323 | $205,128 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 52 | $73,608 |
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 18 | $72,879 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 47 | $59,800 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 27 | $25,941 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $9,712 |
| Davol Inc. | 39 | $3,019 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 8 | $2,616 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $2,162 |
| BD | 7 | $1,470 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $1,001 |
| Merck | 4 | $164 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $164 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $121 |
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $91 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $82 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $66 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 3 | $65 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $45 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $45 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $38 |
| Partner Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| B. Braun Interventional Systems Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Stryker | 1 | $29 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $23 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $19 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $19 |
| G1 Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $14 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $13 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$776,243
- RIBFIX BLU ADVANTAGE$210,485
- DA VINCI SP$87,100
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$61,864
- Echelon Flex$54,441
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$46,269
- AdvantageRib$21,196
- Enseal$13,650
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$10,969
- RIBFIX TITAN$6,509
- Spin$2,333
- TAGRISSO$2,025
- Progel Applicator Spray Tips$1,908
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$800
- Phasix Mesh$484
- RibFix Blu$145
- ECHELON ENDOPATH Stapler$143
- CellerateRx$135
- VAC VERAFLO$125
- PREVENA$125
How this compares
$1,330,616 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 75 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Louisiana.
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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 Baton Rouge
- Nicholas LeblancBaton Rouge$70K
- Imtiaz KhanBaton Rouge$42K
- Terry StellyBaton Rouge$24K
- Azeem KhanBaton Rouge$24K
- Shafi MohamedBaton Rouge$16K
- William BoedefeldBaton Rouge$13K
- Jared MurdockBaton Rouge$10K
- Thomas MarsdenBaton Rouge$2K
- Carl RigbyBaton Rouge$2K
- Walter Bringaze IiiBaton Rouge$2K
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.