Geoffrey Cousins, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Huntington, WVNPI 1750379376
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,226 of the $6,626 with a category attached, or 63.8%. 41 manufacturers reported payments, led by Getinge USA Sales, LLC at 39.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,166 and has fallen 55.3% since, to $968 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in WV, where the typical reported total is $6,670.
Across 131 payments — averaging $50.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$786
- Atricure, Inc.$541
- Livanova USA, Inc.$328
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$276
- Medtronic$189
- plus $2K from 35 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,40036%
- Food & beverage$4,22664%
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.
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.
- Acrobat-I Stabilizer$2,400
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$167
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$167
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$144
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$144
- LifeSPARC System$143
- Progel Applicator Spray Tips$122
- Ovation$116
- AFX$116
- Perceval$115
- Surgicel Powder$113
- SURGICEL Family of Absorbable Hemostats$113
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$113
- ETHICON$112
- PROLENE$112
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$112
- Echelon Flex$112
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$111
- Mosaic$111
How this compares
$6,626 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 30 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in West Virginia.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 39 | $408 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 23 | $207 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 14 | $93 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 18 | $93 |
| Mupirocin | 16 | $83 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 16 | $71 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Huntington
- Nepal ChowdhuryHuntington$15K
- Nestor DansHuntington$7K
- Rebecca WolferHuntington$19
- James RankinMorgantown$1.6M
- Vinay BadhwarMorgantown$56K
- Ghulam AbbasCharleston$50K
- Seyfi TokerMorgantown$32K
- Jeremiah HayangaMorgantown$27K
- Andres Jadue TobarCharleston$20K
- Robert HerronCharleston$11K
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.