James Anderson, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1245240290
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $31,500 of the $46,025 with a category attached, or 68.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 70.6% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $31,736 and has fallen 98.3% since, to $551 in 2025.
Across 162 payments — averaging $284.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$32K
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$4K
- Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C.$3K
- Abbott$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,11011%
- Travel & lodging$1,1563%
- Food & beverage$8,25918%
- Education$31,50068%
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 | 32 | $32,471 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 33 | $3,617 |
| Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C. | 1 | $3,360 |
| Abbott | 19 | $1,798 |
| Abiomed | 14 | $1,312 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 25 | $1,049 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 3 | $300 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $292 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $276 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 8 | $264 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 5 | $258 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $179 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $166 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $156 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $138 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $70 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $62 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $46 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $14 |
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$31,884
- iCAST$5,110
- Impella$1,134
- Emboshield NAV6 system$591
- HeartString III Proximal Seal$367
- Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve$363
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$281
- Vasoview Hemopro 2$276
- Acrobat-I Stabilizer$220
- AngioVac$179
- Perclose ProStyle$168
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$166
- Lutonix Drug Coated Balloon$156
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$155
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$153
- RAM$147
- JETi Peripheral Catheter$145
- Indigo$144
- Supera peripheral stent system$130
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$126
How this compares
$46,025 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 12 | $5,552 |
| Prasugrel Hcl | 17 | $745 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $387 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 56 | $316 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 24 | $110 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Fort Worth
- Seyed Mohammad KhalafiFort Worth$66K
- Faraz KerendiAustin$906K
- Robert HebelerDallas$723K
- Michael ReardonHouston$713K
- Danny RamzyHouston$527K
- Scott OlssonCypress$357K
- Randall WolfHouston$283K
- Gary JettPlano$277K
- Darien BradfordBurleson$266K
- William BrinkmanPlano$266K
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.