Federico Milla
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Atlanta, GANPI 1346393238
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (54.0%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 53.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,436 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $94 in 2025.
Across 105 payments — averaging $117.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$7K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Abiomed$363
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$118
- plus $378 from 7 others
Across 15 payments — averaging $12,737 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.
- Edwards Lifesciences$191K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6685%
- Travel & lodging$6,67554%
- Food & beverage$4,92440%
- Education$1031%
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 | 47 | $6,640 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 21 | $1,922 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $1,847 |
| Abbott | 17 | $1,104 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $363 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $118 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $113 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $108 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $87 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Amgen | 1 | $23 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $12 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- PASCAL$1,746
- Avalus$1,144
- EVOQUE$749
- Mosaic$692
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$645
- MitraClip$520
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$344
- Mitra Clip system$293
- Impella$266
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$160
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$159
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$118
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$105
- ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$105
- MitraClip System$103
How this compares
$12,370 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 144 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Georgia.
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- Allan PickensAtlanta$87K
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- Kimberly HolstAtlanta$52K
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.