Has Francis Pagani, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,549 in general payments to Francis Pagani, MD across 16 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Francis Pagani, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Francis Pagani, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Francis Pagani, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Ann Arbor, MINPI 1992897383

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 16 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Abbott accounts for 83.4% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in MI, where the typical reported total is $5,088.

$1,549in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $96.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$1K
Briohealth Solutions, Inc.$148
Intuitive Surgical$91
Baxter Healthcare$18

$285,307in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 76 payments — averaging $3754.03 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.

Abbott$254K
Medtronic$24K
Transmedics, Inc.$8K

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,549100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Abbott	11	$1,291
Briohealth Solutions, Inc.	1	$148
Intuitive Surgical	3	$91
Baxter Healthcare	1	$18

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.

THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,100
BRIOVAD$148

How this compares

$1,549 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$54,156

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Mexiletine Hcl	17	$6,254
Sildenafil Citrate	24	$3,803
Potassium Chloride	72	$3,562
Amiodarone Hcl	63	$2,145
Digoxin	101	$2,140
Enoxaparin Sodium	14	$2,000
Torsemide	63	$1,899
Warfarin Sodium	85	$1,251
Omeprazole	110	$1,247
Eplerenone	11	$1,236
Atorvastatin Calcium	73	$752
Metoprolol Succinate	52	$717
Tamsulosin Hcl	32	$623
Isosorbide Dinitrate	11	$611
Allopurinol	36	$588

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Ann Arbor

Steven BollingAnn Arbor$41.7M
Gorav AilawadiAnn Arbor$434K
Shinichi FukuharaAnn Arbor$236K
Bo YangAnn Arbor$180K
Matthew RomanoAnn Arbor$177K
Chigozirim EkekeAnn Arbor$92K
Himanshu PatelAnn Arbor$58K
Rishindra ReddyAnn Arbor$58K
Barbara HamiltonAnn Arbor$34K
Kenneth HasslerAnn Arbor$31K

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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.

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