Has Hazem Afifi, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $41,098 in general payments to Hazem Afifi, MD across 286 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 Hazem Afifi, 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 Hazem Afifi, 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.

Hazem Afifi, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Las Vegas, NVNPI 1740455229

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $25,000 of the $41,098 with a category attached, or 60.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 68.8% of it on its own, with 30 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $16,388 and has fallen 88.6% since, to $1,869 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in NV 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.

$41,098in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 286 payments — averaging $143.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$28K
Medtronic$8K
Atricure, Inc.$1K
Abiomed$875
Edwards Lifesciences$612
Artivion, Inc.$294
plus $2K from 25 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$5,69114%
Food & beverage$10,40825%
Education$25,00061%

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
Intuitive Surgical	56	$28,291
Medtronic(2 entities)	133	$7,537
Atricure, Inc.	12	$1,131
Abiomed	12	$875
Edwards Lifesciences	13	$612
Artivion, Inc.	3	$294
LSI Solutions Inc	2	$291
Smith+Nephew	6	$251
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	8	$192
Endologix LLC	1	$166
Baxter Healthcare	1	$150
Clearflow Inc.	1	$138
Balt USA, LLC	2	$137
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$136
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	6	$119
BD	1	$103
Abbott	4	$97
Cook Medical LLC	4	$95
Goode Surgical Inc	2	$72
Merck	2	$63
Terumo Medical Corporation	2	$56
AstraZeneca	3	$54
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	2	$37
Chiesi USA, Inc.	2	$36
Braemar Manufacturing, LLC	1	$31
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	1	$28
Bard Access Systems, Inc.	1	$27
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$25
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$23
TELA Bio, Inc.	1	$17
Boston Scientific	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.

DAVINCI XI$25,000
Da Vinci Surgical System$2,179
CoreValve Evolut$1,779
Simulus$1,714
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$674
Impella$660
ENDURANT IIS$396
Valiant Captivia$292
COR KNOT$291
Valiant Navion$277
3F$241
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$173
ENDOCROSS Device$166
Torus Stent Graft System$166
PerClot$150
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$146
Pleuraflow System with FlowGlide$138
RUBY Coil$136
ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$135
VASCULAR$135

How this compares

$41,098 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 41 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Nevada.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$227,158

Medicare patients

252

Services billed

568

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
Naloxone Hcl	21	$1,411
Tramadol Hcl	113	$205
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	14	$177

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Las Vegas

Peter CaravellaLas Vegas$671K
Chan ParkLas Vegas$85K
Ashraf OsmanLas Vegas$54K
Nauman JahangirLas Vegas$38K
Quynh FeikesLas Vegas$24K
Timothy HamiltonLas Vegas$21K
Rick BernsteinLas Vegas$16K
Giovanni CiuffoLas Vegas$15K
Serrie LicoLas Vegas$14K
Harbinder SinghLas Vegas$11K

See the full list for Nevada →

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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