Hassan Nemeh, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Detroit, MINPI 1487634044
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (39.5%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 41.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,185 and has fallen 84.0% since, to $991 in 2025.
Across 139 payments — averaging $156.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$9K
- Abbott$7K
- Medtronic$2K
- Bolton Medical Inc$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$949
- Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation$523
- plus $292 from 4 others
Across 31 payments — averaging $6339.62 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.
- Abbott$158K
- Transmedics, Inc.$39K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,13033%
- Travel & lodging$8,57740%
- Food & beverage$6,00428%
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 | 36 | $9,019 |
| Abbott | 56 | $6,700 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 19 | $2,274 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 11 | $1,953 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $949 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 2 | $523 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $140 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $85 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $38 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $30 |
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.
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$2,852
- Grafts$1,566
- Octopus$1,480
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$898
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$853
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$827
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$540
- Hercules$500
- Sarns$500
- AMPLATZER Occluders$478
- CardioMEMS HF System$327
- HeartWare HVAD$258
- HeartMate Touch$182
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$171
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$171
- CoreValve Evolut$157
- Epic$154
- Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve$140
- KONECT RESILIA$128
- STENTS$125
How this compares
$21,710 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.
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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 Detroit
- Raed AlnajjarDetroit$781K
- Zane HammoudDetroit$208K
- Sanjay BatraDetroit$84K
- Kyle MileticDetroit$22K
- Omar HabibDetroit$20K
- Fouad AzouryDetroit$20K
- Steven BollingAnn Arbor$41.7M
- Gorav AilawadiAnn Arbor$434K
- Reza DabirDearborn$342K
- Shinichi FukuharaAnn Arbor$236K
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.