Has James Wu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $24,446 in general payments to James Wu, MD across 274 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 James Wu, 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 James Wu, 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.

James Wu, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Allentown, PANPI 1427009356

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (59.5%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 29.6% of the total.

$24,446in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 274 payments — averaging $89.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$7K
Atricure, Inc.$5K
Medtronic$4K
Abbott$3K
Abiomed$2K
Zimmer Biomet$392
plus $2K from 8 others

$108,849in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $2654.85 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.

Bolton Medical Inc$70K
Atricure, Inc.$22K
Artivion, Inc.$17K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2171%
Travel & lodging$9,68040%
Food & beverage$14,55060%

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
Edwards Lifesciences	70	$7,235
Atricure, Inc.	46	$5,431
Medtronic(2 entities)	35	$4,394
Abbott	35	$3,124
Abiomed	65	$2,238
Zimmer Biomet	8	$392
Bolton Medical Inc	2	$275
Boston Scientific	3	$267
Kerecis Limited	2	$253
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$247
Biomerieux Inc	1	$217
Baxter Healthcare	2	$204
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$123
Chiesi USA, Inc.	2	$45

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.

EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$2,690
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,784
Mosaic$1,593
Tri-Ad$1,027
Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$870
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$863
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$824
Mitra Clip system$786
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$496
EVOQUE$451
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$449
Impella$336
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$334
Epic Stented Tissue Valve$308
TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$275
Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$253
GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$247
Diem2$182
PASCAL$172
SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$166

How this compares

$24,446 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$275,325

Medicare patients

271

Services billed

648

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
Mupirocin	55	$371

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Allentown

Joseph BavariaAllentown$1.7M
Timothy MisselbeckAllentown$140K
Basel RamlawiWynnewood$1.1M
Patrick RossWynnewood$956K
Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
Scott GoldmanWynnewood$354K
Frank BowenCamp Hill$310K
Michael AckerPhiladelphia$271K
Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$252K
Inderpal SarkariaPittsburgh$248K

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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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