Eric Keyser, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Las Vegas, NVNPI 1083723803
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,018 of the $6,986 with a category attached, or 71.8%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 42.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,419 and has fallen 96.0% since, to $97 in 2025.
Across 91 payments — averaging $76.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Abiomed$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$451
- Cook Medical LLC$299
- Kls-martin L.p.$250
- plus $578 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4006%
- Travel & lodging$1,56822%
- Food & beverage$5,01872%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 37 | $2,963 |
| Abiomed | 16 | $1,400 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $1,044 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $451 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $299 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $250 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $170 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $92 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Goode Surgical Inc | 1 | $38 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $35 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $21 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$1,793
- Impella$1,099
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$942
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$663
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$663
- DISSECTOR$663
- ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$663
- Epic$326
- Zenith Spiral-Z$235
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$175
- Mitra Clip system$130
- MitraClip$125
- ENDURANT IIS$124
How this compares
$6,986 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 41 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Nevada.
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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 Las Vegas
- Peter CaravellaLas Vegas$671K
- Chan ParkLas Vegas$85K
- Ashraf OsmanLas Vegas$54K
- Hazem AfifiLas Vegas$41K
- Nauman JahangirLas Vegas$38K
- Quynh FeikesLas Vegas$24K
- Timothy HamiltonLas Vegas$21K
- Rick BernsteinLas Vegas$16K
- Giovanni CiuffoLas Vegas$15K
- Serrie LicoLas Vegas$14K
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.