Has Eric Sandwith, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $20,792 in general payments to Eric Sandwith, MD across 150 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 Eric Sandwith, MD 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 Eric Sandwith, MD 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.

Eric Sandwith, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Fort Walton Beach, FLNPI 1174519441

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (34.1%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 40.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $10,275 and has fallen 92.1% since, to $814 in 2025.

$20,792in general payments, 2019–2025

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

Part B allowed, 2024

$343,856

Medicare patients

310

Services billed

878

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.

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Andrew ShermanTampa$517K
Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$515K
Daniel O'HairFort Myers$429K
Luis HerreraOrlando$409K
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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.

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