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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $316,869 in general payments to Gary Schwartz, MD across 367 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 Schwartz, 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 Schwartz, 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 Schwartz, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Dallas, TXNPI 1386979144

Payments from drug & device makers

$316,869in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 367 payments — averaging $863.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$136K
Transmedics, Inc.$85K
Gyrus ACMI, Inc.$29K
Abbott$28K
Intuitive Surgical$22K
Maquet Cardiopulmonary GmbH$7K
plus $11K from 54 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$23,49430%
Speaking & faculty fees$7,96310%
Travel & lodging$17,65423%
Food & beverage$14,15718%
Education$14,00018%
Gifts$90%

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
Paragonix Technologies, Inc.	21	$136,051
Transmedics, Inc.	20	$84,533
Gyrus ACMI, Inc.	6	$28,555
Abbott	62	$27,805
Intuitive Surgical	62	$22,167
Maquet Cardiopulmonary GmbH	6	$7,054
Medtronic(2 entities)	37	$3,838
On Target Laboratories, Inc	3	$672
Pinnacle Biologics, Inc	5	$567
Livanova USA, Inc.	6	$531
Abiomed	5	$529
Johnson & Johnson(3 entities)	11	$427
Atricure, Inc.	15	$404
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	12	$380
ERBE USA Inc	5	$364
Kls-martin L.p.	16	$291
Lexington Medical, Inc.	2	$203
Merit Medical Systems Inc	1	$190
Surgical Theater. Inc.	1	$166
Olympus America Inc.	8	$163
United Therapeutics Corporation	1	$149
Beyond Air, Inc.	2	$139
Davol Inc.	4	$139
Penumbra, Inc.	2	$134
Boston Scientific	4	$84
Novocure Inc.	2	$82
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.	2	$80
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	2	$77
Vertex	2	$77
Cvrx, Inc.	1	$73
Potrero Medical, Inc.	2	$61
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$54
Merck	2	$53
Acera Surgical, Inc.	2	$47
Bard Access Systems, Inc.	1	$47
Baxter Healthcare	3	$47
Pylant Medical	2	$44
Biom'up France SAS	1	$41
AstraZeneca	2	$41
Smith+Nephew	2	$37
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas	1	$36
BD	1	$35
Eurofins Viracor, LLC	1	$34
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	2	$32
Cook Medical LLC	1	$28
Inari Medical, Inc.	1	$25
Vapotherm Inc	1	$25
Chiesi USA, Inc.	1	$24
Medela LLC	1	$23
Nxstage Medical, Inc.	1	$22
Saranas, Inc.	1	$22
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	1	$21
Acumed LLC	1	$20
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$19
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	1	$17
Corcym Inc	1	$17
KARL Storz Endoscopy-america	1	$17
Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc.	1	$16
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	1	$15
Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.	1	$14

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.

CentriMag$13,212
Da Vinci Surgical System$9,829
2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$9,301
DAVINCI XI$8,000
ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$7,742
HLS Set$6,991
ION$3,000
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$1,900
LUNGguard$1,460
BaroGuard$1,460
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,257
MC3 NAUTILUS(TM) ECMO OXYGENATOR$980
LigaSure$965
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$950
Cytalux$500
Signia$497
SherpaPak$460
LIVERguard$460
PancreasPak$460
Photofrin$447

How this compares

$316,869 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$130,040

Medicare patients

212

Services billed

533

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
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	11	$323
Oxycodone Hcl	20	$133

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Dallas

Robert HebelerDallas$1.2M
Dan MeyerDallas$518K
Todd DeweyDallas$389K
Matthais PeltzDallas$279K
Michael WaitDallas$245K
Michael JessenDallas$177K
Juan MachannafordDallas$164K
Aldo Rafael-YarihuamanDallas$142K
Robert SmithPlano$2.9M
Michael ReardonHouston$2.7M

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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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