George Deeb, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Ann Arbor, MINPI 1972695344
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $7,718 of the $11,478 with a category attached, or 67.2%. Medtronic accounts for 95.8% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,841 and has fallen 94.3% since, to $335 in 2025.
Across 80 payments — averaging $143.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$11K
- Edwards Lifesciences$326
- Abiomed$119
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$34
Across 249 payments — averaging $4048.72 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$996K
- Boston Scientific$9K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,71867%
- Food & beverage$3,76033%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 75 | $10,999 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $326 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $119 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $34 |
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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$2,216
- Hancock$1,304
- CoreValve Evolut$415
- Avalus$407
- Penditure$277
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$159
- Impella$119
- 3F$108
How this compares
$11,478 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Warfarin Sodium | 20 | $445 |
| Amoxicillin | 36 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Ann Arbor
- Steven BollingAnn Arbor$41.7M
- Gorav AilawadiAnn Arbor$434K
- Shinichi FukuharaAnn Arbor$236K
- Bo YangAnn Arbor$180K
- Matthew RomanoAnn Arbor$177K
- Chigozirim EkekeAnn Arbor$92K
- Himanshu PatelAnn Arbor$58K
- Rishindra ReddyAnn Arbor$58K
- Barbara HamiltonAnn Arbor$34K
- Kenneth HasslerAnn Arbor$31K
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.