Evelio Rodriguez, MD
Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1811984750
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,021 payments — averaging $2444.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$1.6M
- Abbott$708K
- Atricure, Inc.$73K
- Medtronic$28K
- Philips North America LLC$22K
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- plus $24K from 14 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $2400.00 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.
- Arrow International, Inc.$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$212,73459%
- Speaking & faculty fees$62,60017%
- Travel & lodging$57,52216%
- Food & beverage$21,3506%
- Education$8,0902%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 399 | $1,629,783 |
| Abbott | 458 | $707,502 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 86 | $72,755 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 24 | $28,083 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $21,600 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 19 | $11,643 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $10,756 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 5 | $4,270 |
| Arrow International, Inc. | 3 | $3,000 |
| Vascular Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $3,000 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $2,000 |
| Jenavalve Technology, Inc. | 1 | $328 |
| Corcym Inc | 2 | $226 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $130 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $115 |
| Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C. | 2 | $91 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$127,789
- Mitra Clip system$51,556
- MitraClip$28,917
- Educ Ultrasound$21,600
- MitraClip System$17,107
- Epic$16,675
- Da Vinci Surgical System$11,278
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$7,800
- NAVITOR$4,500
- TMVR$4,265
- EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$2,750
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$2,680
- FreeStyle Libre Pro$2,500
- Interventional Products$2,400
- TENDYNE$2,106
- TRICLIP$1,282
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,024
- Catheter - Specialty Access$600
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$503
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$503
How this compares
$2,495,509 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 516 surgery providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 36 | $266 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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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.