Fabien Maldonado, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Nashville, TNNPI 1437161221
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (57.4%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 41.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $21,356 and has fallen 61.2% since, to $8,281 in 2025. Among pulmonary disease clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 136 payments — averaging $612.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$35K
- Covidien LP$23K
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH$9K
- Pleural Dynamics Inc.$2K
- ERBE USA Inc$678
- plus $2K from 8 others
Across 39 payments — averaging $60,956 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$1.5M
- Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc$454K
- Covidien LP$206K
- Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH$157K
- Optellum Ltd$30K
- Pleural Dynamics Inc.$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,65410%
- Speaking & faculty fees$47,84857%
- Travel & lodging$18,87423%
- Food & beverage$4,8316%
- Education$3,0004%
- Gifts$1400%
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 | 68 | $34,836 |
| Covidien LP | 18 | $23,112 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 31 | $11,515 |
| Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH | 2 | $9,431 |
| Pleural Dynamics Inc. | 3 | $2,133 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 4 | $678 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $400 |
| CSA Medical, Inc | 1 | $368 |
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $233 |
| Noah Medical Corporation | 1 | $215 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 3 | $149 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $77 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $50 |
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.
- superDimension$31,046
- ILLUMISITE$16,217
- Da Vinci Surgical System$9,698
- Automatic Continuous Effusion Shunt (ACES) System$2,133
- Arcpoint$1,287
- DA VINCI SP$1,170
- Erbe VIO APC CRYO$459
- ALIYA SYSTEM$400
- TRUFREEZE$233
- GALAXY$215
- LigaSure$167
- Progel Applicator Spray Tips$149
- CHARTIS CATHETER$118
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$118
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$118
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$118
- VIO 300 D$104
- APC2$104
- CRYO$104
How this compares
$83,346 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 339 pulmonary disease 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.
Other pulmonary disease in Nashville
- Lisa LancasterNashville$519K
- Otis RickmanNashville$392K
- Susan GarwoodNashville$343K
- Joao DeandradeNashville$245K
- Anna HemnesNashville$183K
- Bryan HayNashville$126K
- Karl KuhnNashville$106K
- Margaret SalisburyNashville$53K
- Victor KhaNashville$44K
- Jennifer DukeNashville$44K
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.