Hirohisa Ikegami, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New Brunswick, NJNPI 1982851887
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.6%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abiomed at 25.7% of the total.
Across 201 payments — averaging $93.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$5K
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Abbott$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$747
- plus $198 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6754%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,80010%
- Travel & lodging$7,01637%
- Food & beverage$9,33050%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 62 | $4,842 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 32 | $4,486 |
| Abbott | 45 | $3,845 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 36 | $2,970 |
| Medtronic | 12 | $1,734 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 9 | $747 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $99 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $37 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $36 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $26 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,897
- Impella$2,133
- Octopus$1,487
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,472
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,411
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,172
- Epic$694
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$387
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$299
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$263
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$243
- MitraClip$163
- Mitra Clip system$162
- autoLog$157
- PORTICO$152
How this compares
$18,821 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 129 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Jersey.
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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 New Brunswick
- Mark RussoNew Brunswick$219K
- George BatsidesNew Brunswick$71K
- Manabu TakebeNew Brunswick$18K
- Ioannis KontopidisNew Brunswick$8K
- Benjamin MedinaNew Brunswick$7K
- Atiq RehmanCherry Hill$503K
- Leonard LeeHackensack$143K
- Adam ArnofskyEnglewood$132K
- Igor GosevNewark$118K
- Kourosh AsgarianNeptune$93K
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.