Hazaim Alwair, MD
Vascular Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1043518749
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
28 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 41.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,245 and has fallen 72.2% since, to $1,179 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in KY, where the typical reported total is $9,151.
Across 159 payments — averaging $57.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$817
- Abbott$428
- Philips North America LLC$366
- Johnson & Johnson$295
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,71941%
- Food & beverage$5,43159%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 54 | $3,763 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 10 | $1,771 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 32 | $817 |
| Abbott | 12 | $428 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $366 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $295 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 2 | $265 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $222 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $200 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 3 | $196 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 4 | $172 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Stryker | 1 | $61 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 2 | $51 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $51 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Corcym Inc | 3 | $50 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $37 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $31 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 2 | $12 |
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$1,835
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$1,331
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$435
- (9124) LM Undivided$284
- Pleuraflow System with FlowGlide$191
- ECM Patch,Pouch$161
- VISTASEAL$146
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$145
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$135
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$131
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$109
- GlideWire$107
- LifeVest$103
How this compares
$9,151 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 72 vascular surgery providers in Kentucky.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 41 | $236 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Louisville
- Amit DwivediLouisville$406K
- Abindra SigdelLouisville$84K
- Ferenc NagyLouisville$47K
- Gregory SchmiederLouisville$44K
- Erik WayneLouisville$25K
- Matthew JungLouisville$24K
- Nancy ClarkLouisville$19K
- Ashlee VinyardLouisville$12K
- Salem GeorgeLouisville$10K
- Nathaniel LiuLouisville$10K
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.