Giuseppe Tavilla, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Temple, TXNPI 1588264683
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,760 of the $6,736 with a category attached, or 70.7%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 43.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,016 and has fallen 88.8% since, to $450 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $5,866.
Across 110 payments — averaging $61.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Abbott$1K
- Abiomed$835
- Medtronic$342
- LSI Solutions Inc$257
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$224
- plus $874 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,97629%
- Food & beverage$4,76071%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 41 | $2,953 |
| Abbott | 9 | $1,251 |
| Abiomed | 18 | $835 |
| Medtronic | 10 | $342 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $257 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 5 | $224 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 3 | $181 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 3 | $146 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $126 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $66 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $43 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 2 | $30 |
| Biostable Science & Engineering | 1 | $29 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $24 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- PASCAL$1,200
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$910
- Impella$397
- HemoSphere$382
- COR KNOT$257
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$161
- Herc Flex Universal Stabilizer Arm$150
- Capiox FX Advance Hollow Fiber Oxygenator w Integrated AF w Hardshell Res.$150
- CARDIOMEMS$139
- MitraClip$102
- CARDIOSAVE HYBRID, TYPE B PLUG$101
How this compares
$6,736 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.
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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 Temple
- Faraz KerendiAustin$906K
- Robert HebelerDallas$723K
- Michael ReardonHouston$713K
- Danny RamzyHouston$527K
- Scott OlssonCypress$357K
- Randall WolfHouston$283K
- Gary JettPlano$277K
- Darien BradfordBurleson$266K
- William BrinkmanPlano$266K
- Brannon HydeAustin$214K
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.