RxDoctor Payments Data

Jared Murdock, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1801127691

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,742 of the $10,073 with a category attached, or 66.9%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 57.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,406 and has fallen 95.2% since, to $213 in 2025.

$10,073in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 69 payments — averaging $145.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Atricure, Inc.$6K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Artivion, Inc.$963
  • Abiomed$376
  • Edwards Lifesciences$172
  • Baxter Healthcare$129
  • plus $211 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$6,74267%
  • Food & beverage$3,31633%
  • Education$150%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Atricure, Inc.37$5,795
Medtronic(2 entities)13$2,427
Artivion, Inc.4$963
Abiomed6$376
Edwards Lifesciences3$172
Baxter Healthcare1$129
Abbott1$101
Getinge USA Sales, LLC2$55
Werfen USA LLC1$32
Johnson & Johnson1$24

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

$10,073 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 75 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$200,163
Medicare patients
156
Services billed
272

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.

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