George Makdisi, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Tucson, AZNPI 1295960524
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,017 of the $9,761 with a category attached, or 61.6%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 48.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,148, 6.0 times the $864 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $8,521.
Across 99 payments — averaging $98.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Artivion, Inc.$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$856
- Abiomed$501
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$297
- plus $713 from 13 others
Across 19 payments — averaging $120.28 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.
- Transmedics, Inc.$2K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,01762%
- Food & beverage$3,74538%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 48 | $4,706 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 5 | $1,493 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 7 | $1,195 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $856 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $501 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 4 | $297 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $148 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $145 |
| Abbott | 2 | $93 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $46 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Amgen | 3 | $45 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $41 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $15 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
How this compares
$9,761 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 100 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Arizona.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 15 | $201 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 12 | $120 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 24 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Tucson
- Raj BoseTucson$118K
- Zain KhalpeyTucson$113K
- Rammohan MarlaTucson$90K
- Stephanie WorrellTucson$77K
- Christopher KomanapalliTucson$40K
- Toshinobu KazuiTucson$20K
- Elizabeth ButlerTucson$16K
- William CooperTucson$8K
- Jonathan RiceTucson$7K
- Dawn JaroszewskiPhoenix$794K
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.