Has Glenn Barnhart received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $576,635 in general payments to Glenn Barnhart across 354 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Glenn Barnhart did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Glenn Barnhart come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Glenn Barnhart

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Seattle, WANPI 1568464154

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $446,932 of the $576,635 with a category attached, or 77.5%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 61.7% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $185,849 and has fallen 90.3% since, to $18,079 in 2024. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in WA 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.

$576,635in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 354 payments — averaging $1628.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$356K
Artivion, Inc.$123K
Edwards Lifesciences$98K

$30,991in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $1721.71 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.

Artivion, Inc.$31K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$446,93278%
Speaking & faculty fees$78,34614%
Travel & lodging$48,1678%
Food & beverage$3,1901%

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
Atricure, Inc.	211	$355,730
Artivion, Inc.	51	$123,240
Edwards Lifesciences	92	$97,666

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.

SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$184,968
ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$100,177
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$67,044
On-X$48,893
Cardiac non-SynerGraft$32,027
ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$25,436
CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$12,875
ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$3,016
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$816
NA$603
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$367

How this compares

$576,635 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 105 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Washington.

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Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Seattle

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Eric LehrSeattle$72K
Thomas VargheseSeattle$22K
Shakirat OyetunjiSeattle$21K
Christopher BurkeSeattle$19K
Mohamed EldeirySeattle$17K
Ioannis John DemarakosSeattle$15K
Peter WhiteSeattle$15K
Joel SternbachSeattle$13K
Adam BogradSeattle$13K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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