Has George Arnaoutakis, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $60,214 in general payments to George Arnaoutakis, MD across 250 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 George Arnaoutakis, 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 George Arnaoutakis, 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.

George Arnaoutakis, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Gainesville, FLNPI 1518171347

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (43.1%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bolton Medical Inc at 41.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $13,671 and has fallen 64.5% since, to $4,855 in 2025.

$60,214in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 250 payments — averaging $240.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Bolton Medical Inc$25K
Medtronic$15K
Artivion, Inc.$10K
Abbott$6K
Core Surgical Group$954
Abiomed$810
plus $3K from 11 others

$37,053in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $3368.45 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medtronic$28K
Artivion, Inc.$9K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$6,60511%
Speaking & faculty fees$5,0008%
Travel & lodging$18,33630%
Food & beverage$25,97343%
Education$4,3007%

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
Bolton Medical Inc	51	$24,969
Medtronic(2 entities)	97	$15,208
Artivion, Inc.	7	$9,727
Abbott	54	$5,810
Core Surgical Group	5	$954
Abiomed	7	$810
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	5	$515
Edwards Lifesciences	5	$414
Cook Medical LLC	5	$393
Atricure, Inc.	2	$341
Baxter Healthcare	4	$296
Arthrex	2	$268
Hemosonics LLC	1	$228
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	1	$104
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$95
BD	2	$61
Zimmer Biomet	1	$21

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.

Relay Plus$13,773
CoreValve Evolut$7,806
Relay Grafts$5,246
Grafts$3,100
Avalus$3,039
AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$2,250
Mosaic$1,876
TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$1,588
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,321
MitraClip$1,303
Impella$680
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$587
CARDIOMEMS$552
Quantra QPlus System$456
Epic$418
Product in Development$405
Epic Stented Tissue Valve$317
RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$297
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$183
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$183

How this compares

$60,214 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$134,291

Medicare patients

Services billed

207

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 Gainesville

Thomas BeaverGainesville$128K
Charles KlodellGainesville$102K
Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
Barry WintonLargo$687K
Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$666K
John PirrisJacksonville$640K
Jacques FontaineTampa$630K
Andrew ShermanTampa$517K
Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$515K
Daniel O'HairFort Myers$429K

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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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