Fardad Esmailian, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Los Angeles, CANPI 1861426314
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (38.0%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Transmedics, Inc. at 29.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,334, 3.0 times the $2,479 reported in 2019.
Across 83 payments — averaging $259.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Transmedics, Inc.$6K
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Octapharma USA, Inc.$4K
- Abbott$3K
- Abiomed$2K
- Artivion, Inc.$595
- plus $1K from 12 others
Across 34 payments — averaging $9864.17 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.
- Transmedics, Inc.$279K
- Xvivo Perfusion Inc.$53K
- Abiomed$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,32520%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,90023%
- Travel & lodging$8,17838%
- Food & beverage$3,89518%
- Education$2051%
- Entertainment$300%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Transmedics, Inc. | 5 | $6,443 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 29 | $4,675 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $4,000 |
| Abbott | 8 | $2,680 |
| Abiomed | 10 | $1,811 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $595 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 15 | $467 |
| Dentsply Sirona Inc | 1 | $271 |
| Xvivo Perfusion Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $120 |
| Biostable Science & Engineering | 1 | $82 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $66 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Mindray DS USA, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Picard Medical Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $18 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$6,443
- FIBRYGA & BALFAXAR$4,000
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$2,508
- Impella$1,509
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$1,095
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$595
- Gold Star$271
- XVIVO Perfusion System (XPS)$146
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$123
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$115
How this compares
$21,533 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.
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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.
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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.