Gundars Katlaps, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Tampa, FLNPI 1124063904
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,514 of the $13,923 with a category attached, or 68.3%. It is spread thinly across 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.9%.
Across 187 payments — averaging $74.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Abiomed$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Corcym Inc$1K
- Bolton Medical Inc$872
- plus $4K from 21 others
Across 35 payments — averaging $891.11 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$30K
- 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) | 61 | $2,076 |
| 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
$13,923 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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 Tampa
- Jacques FontaineTampa$630K
- Andrew ShermanTampa$517K
- Lucian LozonschiTampa$354K
- Narendra SastryTampa$50K
- Eric TolozaTampa$48K
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Barry WintonLargo$687K
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$666K
- John PirrisJacksonville$640K
- Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$515K
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.