Ghulam Murtaza, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Madison, WINPI 1528294329
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $77,300 of the $106,159 with a category attached, or 72.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 92.2% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $89,565, more than ten times the $4,215 reported in 2019. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in WI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 134 payments — averaging $792.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$98K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Abiomed$688
- Davol Inc.$665
- Atricure, Inc.$657
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,0008%
- Travel & lodging$15,56115%
- Food & beverage$5,1985%
- Education$77,30073%
- Gifts$1000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 74 | $97,843 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 18 | $4,146 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $1,031 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $688 |
| Davol Inc. | 6 | $665 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 7 | $657 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 4 | $361 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $303 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $147 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 3 | $105 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $61 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 1 | $11 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$97,293
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$2,003
- RibFix Blu$952
- PROGEL$850
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$237
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$222
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$222
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$156
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$135
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$134
How this compares
$106,159 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 97 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Wisconsin.
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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 | 59 | $663 |
| Mupirocin | 16 | $128 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Madison
- Justin WatsonMadison$35K
- Deemy RekkasMadison$15K
- Daniel McCarthyMadison$14K
- Vijay KantamneniMadison$12K
- Andrea AxtellMadison$9K
- Chris RokkasMadison$9K
- Zahir RashidMadison$8K
- Yu XiaMadison$4K
- James MaloneyMadison$4K
- Paul TessmannMadison$4K
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.