Gal Levy, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Washington, DCNPI 1992966485
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (59.4%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 65.8% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $13,159 and has fallen 94.5% since, to $726 in 2025.
Across 110 payments — averaging $206.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$650
- Hemosonics LLC$506
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,08618%
- Food & beverage$5,13123%
- Education$13,51659%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 27 | $14,963 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 16 | $1,853 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 12 | $1,809 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 12 | $1,483 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 14 | $650 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 9 | $506 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $307 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 2 | $174 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $147 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $138 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $97 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 1 | $97 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $65 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $53 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $49 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $26 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $12 |
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$14,471
- LINX Reflux Management System$1,676
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,071
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$677
- Impella$259
- Quantra QPlus System$248
- FLOSEAL$147
- AGILE ESOPHAGEAL$138
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$135
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$135
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$122
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$122
- QUNATRA QPLUS SYSTEM$111
- HANAROSTENT Esophagus TTS(CCC)$106
How this compares
$22,747 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 25 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in District of Columbia.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Washington
- Keith MortmanWashington$170K
- John LazarWashington$79K
- Salim AzizWashington$24K
- Farzad NajamWashington$19K
- Steven BoyceWashington$13K
- Jeffrey CohenWashington$11K
- Gregory TrachiotisWashington$10K
- Deyanira PrasteinWashington$6K
- Sora ElyWashington$5K
- Dean SchraufnagelWashington$4K
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.