Jesse Madden
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1538393517
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (29.5%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 62.5% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,387, 4.2 times the $1,519 reported in 2019.
Across 133 payments — averaging $148.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$12K
- Abbott$6K
- Abiomed$416
- Edwards Lifesciences$273
- Medtronic$269
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$121
- plus $337 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,50023%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,62518%
- Travel & lodging$5,73229%
- Food & beverage$5,80329%
- Education$430%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 74 | $12,321 |
| Abbott | 27 | $5,965 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $416 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $273 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $269 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $121 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $106 |
| BD | 3 | $87 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $27 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $12 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$4,692
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$2,806
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$1,851
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,046
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$826
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$384
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$264
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$245
- Epic$129
- Impella$125
- Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring$123
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$120
- CoreValve Evolut$104
- CARDIOHELP$104
- DISSECTOR SYSTEM$103
How this compares
$19,702 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 132 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in North Carolina.
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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 Winston Salem
- Leonard WudelWinston Salem$92K
- Bartlomiej ImielskiWinston Salem$29K
- Neal KonWinston Salem$24K
- Peter SmitWinston Salem$20K
- Adrian LataWinston Salem$11K
- Edward KincaidWinston Salem$10K
- Hadley WilsonWinston Salem$10K
- Joseph RubelowskyRaleigh$2.2M
- Matthew HartwigDurham$406K
- Gregory SmaroffNew Bern$205K
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.