Fenton McCarthy, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Albuquerque, NMNPI 1114245032
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (44.6%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abiomed at 53.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $23,864 and has fallen 75.0% since, to $5,957 in 2025.
Across 297 payments — averaging $138.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$22K
- Bolton Medical Inc$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Artivion, Inc.$4K
- Medtronic$3K
- Abbott$1K
- plus $3K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$18,40045%
- Travel & lodging$9,96424%
- Food & beverage$12,89731%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 43 | $22,186 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 53 | $4,179 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 35 | $4,041 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 11 | $3,652 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 32 | $2,524 |
| Abbott | 41 | $1,351 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 10 | $800 |
| Boston Scientific | 15 | $559 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 6 | $339 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $274 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $234 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 12 | $174 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $171 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $153 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 3 | $131 |
| Werfen USA LLC | 1 | $91 |
| Amgen | 5 | $78 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $59 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $48 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $20 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $19 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Novartis | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 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.
- Impella$21,449
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$1,833
- PASCAL$1,459
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,410
- Valiant Navion$1,213
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$926
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$855
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$673
- THORAFLEX HYBRID$470
- Epic$372
- Relay Plus$280
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$215
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$208
- TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$204
- Avalus$165
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$141
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$141
- HeartWare HVAD$134
- CoreValve Evolut$128
- VISTASEAL$125
How this compares
Too few thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Mexicoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Albuquerque
- Kevin RichardsonAlbuquerque$37K
- Luis CerdaAlbuquerque$21K
- David JoyceAlbuquerque$19K
- Dana BoothAlbuquerque$13K
- Jennifer NishimuraAlbuquerque$9K
- William SteinAlbuquerque$4K
- Daniel Maoz-MetzlAlbuquerque$3K
- Brian CastlemainAlbuquerque$2K
- Jesus EnriquezAlbuquerque$487
- Leah McKinnonAlbuquerque$268
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.