James Caralis, DO
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Pontiac, MINPI 1902829930
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 12 payments — averaging $48.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bard Access Systems, Inc.$156
- Lilly USA, LLC$125
- Intuitive Surgical$112
- BD$68
- Johnson & Johnson$38
- Cashflow Solutions, LLC$30
- plus $57 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$586100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 2 | $156 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $112 |
| BD | 1 | $68 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $38 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $16 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $14 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $6 |
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.
- MOUNJARO$125
- Da Vinci Surgical System$112
How this compares
$586 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Pontiac
- Marc SilverPontiac$169K
- Steven BollingAnn Arbor$42.4M
- Matthew RomanoAnn Arbor$2.2M
- Gorav AilawadiAnn Arbor$1.4M
- Himanshu PatelAnn Arbor$1.1M
- John HeiserGrand Rapids$980K
- George DeebAnn Arbor$926K
- Shinichi FukuharaAnn Arbor$881K
- Raed AlnajjarDetroit$781K
- Stephane Leung Wai SangGrand Rapids$645K
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.