Jack Sun, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Newport Beach, CANPI 1043518251
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $34,063 of the $52,139 with a category attached, or 65.3%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 75.3% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $18,051 and has fallen 84.2% since, to $2,859 in 2025.
Across 212 payments — averaging $245.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$39K
- Abbott$3K
- Abiomed$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$797
- plus $931 from 8 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $3479.11 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Edwards Lifesciences$24K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$34,06365%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,4005%
- Travel & lodging$6,17412%
- Food & beverage$9,50218%
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 | 63 | $39,281 |
| Abbott | 40 | $3,066 |
| Abiomed | 44 | $3,015 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 15 | $2,918 |
| Medtronic | 17 | $2,130 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 17 | $797 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $403 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $80 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $57 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $40 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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$2,701
- Mitra Clip system$1,446
- Octopus$1,436
- Impella$959
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$314
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$256
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$234
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$202
- CoreValve Evolut$180
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$146
- EVOQUE$146
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$142
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$142
- CentriMag$137
- ECM Patch,Pouch$135
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$129
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$129
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$117
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$112
How this compares
$52,139 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Carvedilol | 12 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Newport Beach
- Daryl PearlsteinNewport Beach$173K
- Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
- Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
- Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
- Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
- Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$875K
- Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$764K
- Wilson TsaiWalnut Creek$680K
- Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$608K
- Harmik SoukiasianLos Angeles$577K
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.