Has Gary Raff received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,300 in general payments to Gary Raff across 73 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 Raff 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 Raff 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 Raff

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Sacramento, CANPI 1518940741

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,300in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 73 payments — averaging $168.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$6K
Medtronic$2K
Lifenet Health$1K
LSI Solutions Inc$801
Atricure, Inc.$651
Corcym Inc$428
plus $2K from 13 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,15018%
Travel & lodging$1,20819%
Food & beverage$4,08963%

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	9	$5,854
Medtronic	16	$1,603
Lifenet Health	1	$1,000
LSI Solutions Inc	4	$801
Atricure, Inc.	7	$651
Corcym Inc	6	$428
Edwards Lifesciences	5	$428
Abiomed	5	$337
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	5	$192
Intuitive Surgical	3	$168
Baxter Healthcare	2	$162
Octapharma USA, Inc.	1	$126
Johnson & Johnson	1	$125
Davol Inc.	1	$122
Stryker	2	$101
Artivion, Inc.	2	$84
Biom'up France SAS	1	$53
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$50
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$16

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.

Matracell Pulmonary Patch Graft$1,000
HARMONY$979
COR KNOT$642
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$272
Perceval$254
Impella$244
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$241
FLOSEAL$143
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$129
FIBRYGA$126
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$126
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$126
DISSECTOR$126
Echelon Circular$125
Progel Applicator Spray Tips$122
Da Vinci Surgical System$118

How this compares

$12,300 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.

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Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Sacramento

Allen MorrisSacramento$350K
Frank SlachmanSacramento$347K
Bob KiaiiSacramento$247K
Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$1.4M
Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$963K
Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$901K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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