Jeffrey Veluz, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Allentown, PANPI 1578526158
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.4% of the total across 155 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 51.2% of the total.
Across 155 payments — averaging $54.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Abiomed$520
- Bolton Medical Inc$409
- Medtronic$397
- Abbott$252
- plus $1K from 13 others
Across 231 payments — averaging $455.93 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.
- Medtronic$105K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2173%
- Food & beverage$8,24097%
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 | 89 | $4,332 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 17 | $1,363 |
| Abiomed | 15 | $520 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 3 | $409 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $397 |
| Abbott | 5 | $252 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $217 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $168 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $158 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $110 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $96 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $79 |
| Stryker | 1 | $78 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $78 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $13 |
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$762
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$439
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$334
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$287
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$275
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$166
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$137
- LINQ II$135
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$134
- Impella$126
- Azure$125
- LifeSPARC$123
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$123
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$120
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$118
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$110
- SternaLock Blu$105
- PORTICO$100
How this compares
$8,457 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 | 17 | $203 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Allentown
- Joseph BavariaAllentown$1.7M
- Timothy MisselbeckAllentown$140K
- James WuAllentown$24K
- Basel RamlawiWynnewood$1.1M
- Patrick RossWynnewood$956K
- Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
- Scott GoldmanWynnewood$354K
- Frank BowenCamp Hill$310K
- Michael AckerPhiladelphia$271K
- Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$252K
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.