Has Jacob Kriegel, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,864 in general payments to Jacob Kriegel, MD across 28 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 Jacob Kriegel, 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 Jacob Kriegel, 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.

Jacob Kriegel, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Fall River, MANPI 1871936286

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,864in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $102.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$2K
Artivion, Inc.$318
Atricure, Inc.$187
Abiomed$104
Baxter Healthcare$51
Biom'up France SAS$27
plus $90 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,58255%
Food & beverage$1,28245%

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	16	$2,087
Artivion, Inc.	2	$318
Atricure, Inc.	2	$187
Abiomed	1	$104
Baxter Healthcare	2	$51
Biom'up France SAS	1	$27
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$26
Convatec Inc.	1	$24
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	1	$20
Abbott	1	$20

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

$2,864 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 171 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$176,350

Medicare patients

184

Services billed

343

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 Fall River

Christopher ZambranoFall River$39K
Raphael BuenoBoston$1.4M
David DalessandroBoston$1.1M
Ciaran McNameeBoston$922K
Elliot ServaisBurlington$703K
Daniel EngelmanSpringfield$667K
Scott SwansonBoston$461K
Nathaniel LangerBoston$458K
Daniel RaessBoxford$429K
Akinobu ItohBoston$403K

See the full list for Massachusetts →

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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