Franco Rea, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Wheat Ridge, CONPI 1619980703
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $25,756 of the $30,469 with a category attached, or 84.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 92.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $25,181 and has fallen 95.0% since, to $1,256 in 2025.
Across 52 payments — averaging $585.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$28K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Davol Inc.$214
- Kls-martin L.p.$121
- Edwards Lifesciences$107
- Johnson & Johnson$91
- plus $151 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,36911%
- Food & beverage$1,3444%
- Education$25,75685%
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 | 28 | $28,179 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 9 | $1,605 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $214 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $121 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $107 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $91 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $36 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $17 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
How this compares
$30,469 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 72 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Colorado.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 17 | $167 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 18 | $143 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 26 | $74 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Wheat Ridge
- Allan BrantsWheat Ridge$2K
- Hao PanLoveland$243K
- Patrick RudersdorfLakewood$235K
- Robert MeguidAurora$114K
- Boris SepesiEnglewood$113K
- Thomas ReeceAurora$110K
- Reed QuinnGreeley$88K
- Joseph ClevelandAurora$85K
- Jay PalAurora$79K
- John MehallColorado Springs$75K
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.