Goya Raikar, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Milwaukee, WINPI 1376516229
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (46.0%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by GE HealthCare at 28.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $5,679 and has fallen 94.5% since, to $313 in 2025.
Across 107 payments — averaging $162.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GE HealthCare$5K
- Atricure, Inc.$5K
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Abbott$3K
- Medtronic$515
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$388
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,00023%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5003%
- Travel & lodging$7,99246%
- Food & beverage$4,74027%
- Education$1401%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $4,989 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 19 | $4,872 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 18 | $2,728 |
| Abbott | 18 | $2,518 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $515 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $388 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $321 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $154 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $120 |
| Amgen | 4 | $89 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $79 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $71 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $71 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $57 |
| Novartis | 2 | $48 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $32 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $20 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $15 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$4,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,385
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$2,114
- Cook$321
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$315
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$307
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$278
- Avalus$158
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$135
- Impella$128
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$120
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$116
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$113
- Endurant$106
- 3F$103
How this compares
$17,372 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Milwaukee
- Mario GasparriMilwaukee$516K
- David DemosMilwaukee$446K
- William TisolMilwaukee$339K
- Paul SeifertMilwaukee$31K
- Lucian DurhamMilwaukee$30K
- John CrouchMilwaukee$15K
- Andrew LinMilwaukee$14K
- Lyle JoyceMilwaukee$14K
- Austin RogersMilwaukee$13K
- Mallory HuntMilwaukee$13K
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.