Eric Weiss, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Miami Beach, FLNPI 1417966151
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (32.9%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 52.4% of the total.
Across 180 payments — averaging $324.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$31K
- Edwards Lifesciences$10K
- Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical)$8K
- Baxter Healthcare$7K
- Atricure, Inc.$459
- Abbott$315
- plus $964 from 10 others
Across 115 payments — averaging $5042.89 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$469K
- Edwards Lifesciences$111K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$19,18133%
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,50020%
- Travel & lodging$18,16131%
- Food & beverage$9,52516%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 97 | $30,593 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 58 | $10,114 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 5 | $8,445 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $7,478 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $459 |
| Abbott | 3 | $315 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $170 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $151 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $142 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $136 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $120 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $115 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $60 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $30 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $23 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $17 |
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.
- CoreValve Evolut$15,145
- PREVELEAK$6,765
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$4,403
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$2,494
- COSEAL$2,460
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$776
- TISSEEL$665
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$459
- INTEGRA$452
- KONECT RESILIA$441
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$324
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$269
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$178
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$170
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$170
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$151
- PRIMATRIX$151
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$146
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$146
- MitraClip$143
How this compares
$58,368 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Warfarin Sodium | 31 | $303 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 25 | $203 |
| Potassium Chloride | 16 | $192 |
| Calcitriol | 13 | $183 |
| Mupirocin | 24 | $134 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 12 | $51 |
| Amoxicillin | 51 | $51 |
| Furosemide | 14 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Miami Beach
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Barry WintonLargo$687K
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$666K
- John PirrisJacksonville$640K
- Jacques FontaineTampa$630K
- Andrew ShermanTampa$517K
- Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$515K
- Daniel O'HairFort Myers$429K
- Luis HerreraOrlando$409K
- Joseph LamelasMiami$379K
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.