Francis Sutter, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Wynnewood, PANPI 1396725966
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $82,700 of the $105,592 with a category attached, or 78.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 96.7% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $31,499 and has fallen 96.2% since, to $1,181 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 193 payments — averaging $547.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$102K
- Medtronic$1K
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$957
- Atricure, Inc.$709
- LSI Solutions Inc$257
- Abiomed$210
- plus $342 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1750%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,0005%
- Travel & lodging$10,45510%
- Food & beverage$7,2617%
- Education$82,70078%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 135 | $102,073 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 12 | $1,044 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 21 | $957 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 11 | $709 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $257 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $210 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $108 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $76 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $59 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Abbott | 1 | $20 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Paladin Technology Solutions | 1 | $16 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$100,107
- DA VINCI SP$500
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$292
- Avalus$278
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$266
- COR KNOT$257
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$166
- Impella$147
- Acrobat-I Stabilizer$126
- 3F$125
- CARDIOHELP$123
- Acrobat$118
- Octopus$111
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$108
- Mosaic$106
How this compares
$105,592 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 13 | $6,878 |
| Mupirocin | 42 | $258 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 13 | $123 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Wynnewood
- Basel RamlawiWynnewood$1.1M
- Patrick RossWynnewood$956K
- Scott GoldmanWynnewood$354K
- Khalid RidwanWynnewood$40K
- Jessica LucWynnewood$28K
- Fadi HageWynnewood$26K
- Joseph BavariaAllentown$1.7M
- Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
- Frank BowenCamp Hill$310K
- Michael AckerPhiladelphia$271K
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.