Has Gregory Rushing, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $90,510 in general payments to Gregory Rushing, MD across 355 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 Gregory Rushing, MD 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 Gregory Rushing, MD 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.

Gregory Rushing, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Columbus, OHNPI 1801057203

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $60,875 of the $90,510 with a category attached, or 67.3%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 76.1% of it on its own, with 31 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $72,064, more than ten times the $1,047 reported in 2019. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$90,510in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 355 payments — averaging $254.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$69K
Medtronic$15K
Intuitive Surgical$2K
AbbVie$896
Bolton Medical Inc$505
Abbott$400
plus $3K from 26 others

$279,002in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $4894.78 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.

Medtronic$182K
Corcym Inc$85K
Edwards Lifesciences$12K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$60,87567%
Speaking & faculty fees$5,7606%
Travel & lodging$8,3919%
Food & beverage$14,43216%
Education$1,0001%
Entertainment$520%

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.	86	$68,896
Medtronic(2 entities)	187	$14,738
Intuitive Surgical	8	$2,085
AbbVie(2 entities)	5	$896
Bolton Medical Inc	3	$505
Abbott	4	$400
Zimmer Biomet	4	$386
Baxter Healthcare	6	$365
Edwards Lifesciences	8	$354
Abiomed	6	$345
Cook Medical LLC	2	$260
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$225
Davol Inc.	1	$157
Stryker	4	$143
Artivion, Inc.	4	$142
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	2	$137
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$63
Argentum Medical	3	$52
Teleflex LLC	2	$41
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$36
AstraZeneca	2	$35
Novartis	2	$35
LSI Solutions Inc	2	$35
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$28
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$23
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	1	$21
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$20
Merck	1	$20
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	1	$19
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$17
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.	1	$17
Chiesi USA, Inc.	1	$17

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 SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$36,863
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$29,798
Penditure$3,473
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$2,560
Cardioblate$1,823
Avalus$1,650
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,513
DAVINCI XI$1,000
Da Vinci Surgical System$967
EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$894
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$525
Octopus$504
TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$331
Impella$271
Simulus$257
Epic$187
THORAFLEX HYBRID$174
MitraClip System$169
Progel Applicator Spray Tips$157
FLOSEAL$154

How this compares

$90,510 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$146,112

Medicare patients

224

Services billed

352

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
Enoxaparin Sodium	25	$2,014
Amiodarone Hcl	36	$577
Atorvastatin Calcium	13	$176
Metoprolol Tartrate	26	$59

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Columbus

Daniel WatsonColumbus$946K
Eric OkumColumbus$637K
Desmond DsouzaColumbus$487K
Peter KneuertzColumbus$115K
Jefferson LyonsColumbus$72K
Nahush MokadamColumbus$69K
Bryan WhitsonColumbus$64K
Matthew HennColumbus$56K
Robert MerrittColumbus$49K
Maziar KhorsandiColumbus$44K

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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.

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