Jeremy London, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Savannah, GANPI 1699770446
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,568,244 of the $1,571,454 with a category attached, or 99.8%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 99.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $642,466 and has fallen 89.6% since, to $66,607 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 101 payments — averaging $15,559 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$1.6M
- Medtronic$991
- Abiomed$866
- Atricure, Inc.$289
- Edwards Lifesciences$200
- Cvrx, Inc.$147
- plus $200 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,568,244100%
- Consulting fees$5000%
- Travel & lodging$9590%
- Food & beverage$1,7510%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 29 | $1,568,761 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $991 |
| Abiomed | 11 | $866 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 9 | $289 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 31 | $200 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 6 | $147 |
| Abbott | 2 | $86 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $37 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $23 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $18 |
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.
- SternaLock Blu$1,142,814
- STERNALOCK 360 SYSTEM$425,430
- Octopus$758
- Impella$607
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$123
How this compares
$1,571,454 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 144 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Georgia.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Savannah
- Roberto RodriguezSavannah$73K
- Brian BaileySavannah$69K
- Glenn CarlosSavannah$24K
- Mark SuzukiSavannah$14K
- Vinod ThouraniMarietta$1.2M
- Manu SanchetiAtlanta$805K
- John PuskasAtlanta$332K
- Douglas MurphyAtlanta$254K
- Daniel MillerMarietta$237K
- Ezequiel MolinaAtlanta$215K
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.