Jamie Eridon, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Long Beach, CANPI 1225329840
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $10,000 of the $16,008 with a category attached, or 62.5%. Medtronic accounts for 71.2% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $12,151 and has fallen 89.6% since, to $1,266 in 2025.
Across 77 payments — averaging $207.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$11K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Cook Medical LLC$727
- Abbott$497
- Edwards Lifesciences$239
- Zimmer Biomet$188
- plus $653 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$10,00062%
- Travel & lodging$2,07913%
- Food & beverage$3,92925%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 33 | $11,395 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 17 | $2,310 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 6 | $727 |
| Abbott | 9 | $497 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $239 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $188 |
| Cook Incorporated | 2 | $185 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $117 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $115 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $86 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $77 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $72 |
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
$16,008 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 17 | $201 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Long Beach
- Ali KhoynezhadLong Beach$476K
- Marc SakwaLong Beach$72K
- 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
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.