George Batsides, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New Brunswick, NJNPI 1992874705
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (44.4%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Abiomed accounts for 71.5% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $42,148 and has fallen 91.5% since, to $3,600 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 365 payments — averaging $193.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$51K
- Edwards Lifesciences$12K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$848
- plus $2K from 19 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $23.21 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.
- Abiomed$23
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,0008%
- Speaking & faculty fees$31,40044%
- Travel & lodging$16,68324%
- Food & beverage$16,65524%
- Gifts$390%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 166 | $50,608 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 66 | $12,377 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 32 | $2,253 |
| Abbott | 40 | $2,127 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,014 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 14 | $848 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $235 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $201 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $131 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 6 | $126 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Derma Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $111 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 4 | $80 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $69 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Cardiac Dimensions, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $22 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Seapearl East, 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.
- Impella$46,066
- EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$6,000
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$712
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$631
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$454
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$441
- HeartMate$384
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$347
- HeartMate Touch$261
- Indigo System$235
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$174
- Avalus$173
- CoreValve Evolut$154
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$149
- ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$144
- Mosaic$143
- Optis Coronary Imaging System$142
- KONECT RESILIA$134
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$133
- AngioVac$125
How this compares
$70,778 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 129 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Jersey.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in New Brunswick
- Mark RussoNew Brunswick$219K
- Hirohisa IkegamiNew Brunswick$19K
- Manabu TakebeNew Brunswick$18K
- Ioannis KontopidisNew Brunswick$8K
- Benjamin MedinaNew Brunswick$7K
- Atiq RehmanCherry Hill$503K
- Leonard LeeHackensack$143K
- Adam ArnofskyEnglewood$132K
- Igor GosevNewark$118K
- Kourosh AsgarianNeptune$93K
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.