Has Gary Chmielewski, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,357 in general payments to Gary Chmielewski, MD across 65 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 Gary Chmielewski, 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 Gary Chmielewski, 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.

Gary Chmielewski, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Orlando, FLNPI 1215911052

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,357in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 65 payments — averaging $174.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$9K
Johnson & Johnson$990
Davol Inc.$200
Covidien LP$172
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$120
Endogastric Solutions, Inc$111
plus $273 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$1,0009%
Travel & lodging$3,74733%
Food & beverage$4,71341%
Education$1,50013%
Gifts$3984%

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	41	$9,492
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	11	$990
Davol Inc.	3	$200
Covidien LP	4	$172
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$120
Endogastric Solutions, Inc	1	$111
Kerecis Limited	1	$102
Atricure, Inc.	2	$95
Lexington Medical, Inc.	1	$75

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

$11,357 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$60,172

Medicare patients

Services billed

171

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 Orlando

Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
Kevin AccolaOrlando$1.7M
Luis HerreraOrlando$409K
Anthony RongioneOrlando$394K
Lawrence LeeOrlando$252K
Ahmad ZeeshanOrlando$176K
Marcelo DasilvaOrlando$154K
Thomas BeaverGainesville$1.9M
Brian BetheaDelray Beach$1.8M
Joshua RovinClearwater$1.7M

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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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