Jeffrey Altshuler, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Royal Oak, MINPI 1346222379
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 88 payments — averaging $97.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Medtronic$869
- Zimmer Biomet$454
- Abiomed$397
- Johnson & Johnson$173
- plus $610 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,00012%
- Travel & lodging$1,43117%
- Food & beverage$6,11172%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 32 | $4,265 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 8 | $1,775 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $869 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $454 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $397 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $173 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $161 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $157 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $78 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $75 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 2 | $44 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $29 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $20 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Pinnacle, Inc | 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.
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$1,604
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$639
- Epic$383
- Trifecta Tissue Heart Valve$360
- PORTICO$334
- Impella$256
- MitraClip$181
- Mitra Clip system$176
- ENDURANT IIS$160
- STERNALOCK 360 SYSTEM$156
- Avalus$148
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$147
- SternaLock 360$134
- HawkOne$133
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$131
- RENASYS GO v2 HOME$130
- PICO$130
- STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$115
- Endurant$112
How this compares
$8,542 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 28 | $201 |
| Allopurinol | 41 | $41 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 11 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Royal Oak
- Francis ShannonRoyal Oak$25K
- Rakesh SuriRoyal Oak$16K
- 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
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.