Has Ioannis Kontopidis, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,580 in general payments to Ioannis Kontopidis, MD across 15 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 Ioannis Kontopidis, 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 Ioannis Kontopidis, 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.

Ioannis Kontopidis, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New Brunswick, NJNPI 1285998583

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by other: $5,000 of the $7,580 with a category attached, or 66.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 89.6% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,000 and has fallen 95.3% since, to $235 in 2025.

$7,580in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $505.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$7K
Medtronic$251
On Target Laboratories, Inc$158
Baxter Healthcare$143
Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc$122
Pinnacle Biologics, Inc$77
plus $37 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,08014%
Education$1,50020%
Other$5,00066%

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	7	$6,792
Medtronic(2 entities)	3	$251
On Target Laboratories, Inc	1	$158
Baxter Healthcare	1	$143
Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc	1	$122
Pinnacle Biologics, Inc	1	$77
Johnson & Johnson	1	$37

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

$7,580 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 129 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$108,284

Medicare patients

173

Services billed

496

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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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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