RxDoctor Payments Data

Henry Hansen, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Houston, TXNPI 1104881945

Payments from drug & device makers

$764in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 30 payments — averaging $25.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$310
  • Boston Scientific$269
  • Tactile Systems Technology Inc$157
  • Cashflow Solutions, LLC$16
  • Resmed Corp$13

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$764100%

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

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Medtronic(2 entities)5$310
Boston Scientific13$269
Tactile Systems Technology Inc10$157
Cashflow Solutions, LLC1$16
Resmed Corp1$13

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.

How this compares

$764 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$374,310
Medicare patients
138
Services billed
1,034

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.

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