Eric Sandwith, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Fort Walton Beach, FLNPI 1174519441
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 150 payments — averaging $138.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$9K
- Medtronic$4K
- CSL Behring$3K
- Abiomed$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Baxter Healthcare$346
- plus $966 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,40026%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,28516%
- Travel & lodging$7,08834%
- Food & beverage$5,01924%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 48 | $8,504 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 44 | $4,406 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $3,285 |
| Abiomed | 18 | $1,826 |
| Abbott | 12 | $1,459 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $346 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $289 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $141 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $108 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $63 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $41 |
| BD | 1 | $35 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $30 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $22 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 2 | $20 |
| CGG Medical Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$5,805
- Zemaira$3,285
- CoreValve Evolut$1,480
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$1,432
- Impella$1,325
- MitraClip$1,066
- Mosaic$958
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$688
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$664
- Avalus$538
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$530
- Watchman$150
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$146
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$146
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$110
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$110
- TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$108
- PREVELEAK$107
How this compares
$20,792 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 22 | $1,180 |
| Mupirocin | 55 | $402 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 55 | $218 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Fort Walton Beach
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Thomas BeaverGainesville$1.9M
- Brian BetheaDelray Beach$1.8M
- Joshua RovinClearwater$1.7M
- Kevin AccolaOrlando$1.7M
- Andrew ShermanTampa$1.6M
- Abelardo VargasSunny Isles Beach$1.1M
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$991K
- Bradley TaylorBoca Raton$904K
- Marcos NoresAtlantis$836K
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.