Godfred Yankey, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Tallahassee, FLNPI 1316062094
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (59.6%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 39.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,404 and has fallen 83.5% since, to $561 in 2025.
Across 172 payments — averaging $55.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Abiomed$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$309
- Abbott$237
- Artivion, Inc.$134
- plus $592 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,87340%
- Food & beverage$5,71860%
- Education$10%
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 | 63 | $3,769 |
| Abiomed | 48 | $2,317 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 31 | $2,235 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $309 |
| Abbott | 6 | $237 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $134 |
| CGG Medical Inc | 1 | $111 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $86 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $60 |
| Stryker | 1 | $55 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $53 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $44 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $30 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $21 |
| Inspiremd Ltd | 1 | $20 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $20 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Octapharma 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.
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$1,981
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,407
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$1,271
- Impella$1,012
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$151
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$123
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$109
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$108
- Valiant Captivia$104
How this compares
$9,592 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.
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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 Tallahassee
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Barry WintonLargo$687K
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$666K
- John PirrisJacksonville$640K
- Jacques FontaineTampa$630K
- Andrew ShermanTampa$517K
- Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$515K
- Daniel O'HairFort Myers$429K
- Luis HerreraOrlando$409K
- Joseph LamelasMiami$379K
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.