Hiroyuki Tsukui, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1619943289
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (58.8%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 61.7% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $15,157 and has fallen 50.2% since, to $7,555 in 2025.
Across 153 payments — averaging $295.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$28K
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation$4K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$3K
- Abiomed$1K
- Corcym Inc$748
- plus $2K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$26,56559%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,8959%
- Travel & lodging$6,78415%
- Food & beverage$5,40012%
- Education$2,5476%
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 | 53 | $27,882 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 27 | $5,927 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 4 | $4,225 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $3,135 |
| Abiomed | 21 | $1,166 |
| Corcym Inc | 7 | $748 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 8 | $576 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $335 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 5 | $256 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $249 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $135 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $124 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 4 | $95 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $91 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $50 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $47 |
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$3,032
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- Herc Flex Universal Stabilizer Arm$2,378
- INTEGRA$2,280
- CODMAN CERTAS$1,995
- Virtuosaph Plus with Radial Indication$1,800
- SURGIMEND$1,425
- CARPENTIER-EDWARDS PHYSIO ANNULOPLASTY RING WITH HOLDER - MITRAL$1,022
- Perceval$647
- Impella$620
- CUSA CLARITY$570
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$437
- FARXIGA$249
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$172
- Octopus$168
- Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring$168
- VISTASEAL$150
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$142
- WATCHMAN Access System$135
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$125
How this compares
$45,191 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Warfarin Sodium | 26 | $221 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Pittsburgh
- Inderpal SarkariaPittsburgh$248K
- Benny WekslerPittsburgh$161K
- Nicholas BakerPittsburgh$138K
- Walter McGregorPittsburgh$124K
- Rajeev DhuparPittsburgh$65K
- Robert KormosPittsburgh$53K
- David KaczorowskiPittsburgh$47K
- Hiran FernandoPittsburgh$34K
- Stephen BaileyPittsburgh$33K
- Joseph BavariaAllentown$1.7M
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.