Has Gundars Katlaps, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $43,989 in general payments to Gundars Katlaps, MD across 213 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 Gundars Katlaps, 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 Gundars Katlaps, 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.

Gundars Katlaps, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Tampa, FLNPI 1124063904

Payments from drug & device makers

$43,989in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 213 payments — averaging $206.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$32K
Abiomed$2K
Atricure, Inc.$2K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
Corcym Inc$1K
Bolton Medical Inc$872
plus $4K from 21 others

$1,123in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $124.76 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.

Transmedics, Inc.$1K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,06629%
Food & beverage$9,51468%
Education$3432%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	87	$32,142
Abiomed	17	$2,039
Atricure, Inc.	17	$1,663
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	9	$1,549
Corcym Inc	14	$1,325
Bolton Medical Inc	11	$872
Edwards Lifesciences	5	$824
Intuitive Surgical	9	$693
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	4	$349
Davol Inc.	12	$343
Baxter Healthcare	4	$339
Paragonix Technologies, Inc.	3	$290
Abbott	2	$260
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	2	$248
Angiodynamics, Inc.	2	$223
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$174
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$143
Heartflow, Inc.	1	$116
Smith+Nephew	2	$91
Solventum Corporation	1	$79
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$62
United Therapeutics Corporation	1	$59
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$30
Vapotherm Inc	1	$26
Terumo Medical Corporation	1	$17
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$17
Mimedx Group, 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.

Impella$1,444
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,079
CoreValve Evolut$999
GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$714
Perceval$673
GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$610
Da Vinci Surgical System$584
TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$369
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$260
GIAPREZA$248
MEMO 4D$236
AngioVac$223
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$210
SherpaPak$209
LIVERguard$209
LUNGguard$209
BaroGuard$209
PancreasPak$209
KONECT RESILIA$179
Irrisept$174

How this compares

$43,989 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$131,292

Medicare patients

127

Services billed

214

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 Tampa

Andrew ShermanTampa$1.6M
Jacques FontaineTampa$632K
Lucian LozonschiTampa$574K
Narendra SastryTampa$119K
Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
Thomas BeaverGainesville$1.9M
Brian BetheaDelray Beach$1.8M
Joshua RovinClearwater$1.7M
Kevin AccolaOrlando$1.7M
Abelardo VargasSunny Isles Beach$1.1M

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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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