John Cardone, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Fredericksburg, VANPI 1619945268
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,358 of the $6,298 with a category attached, or 85.1%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 43.2% of the total.
Across 110 payments — averaging $57.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$624
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$409
- Johnson & Johnson$296
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$252
- plus $490 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$94115%
- Food & beverage$5,35885%
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 | 35 | $2,723 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 20 | $1,504 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 8 | $624 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 21 | $409 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 5 | $296 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $252 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $141 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $35 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $19 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| B. Braun Interventional Systems Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$788
- ENDURANT IIS$387
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$299
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$299
- CoreValve Evolut$288
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$206
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$187
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$180
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$175
- Echelon Flex$151
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$141
- TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$130
- 3F$111
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$108
- Valiant Captivia$106
How this compares
$6,298 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 109 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Virginia.
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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 Fredericksburg
- Sang NaFredericksburg$20K
- John SherwoodFredericksburg$14K
- Clinton KempNorfolk$367K
- Sandeep KhandharFairfax$261K
- Mark CooperHampton$219K
- Linda MartinCharlottesville$76K
- Kenneth SaumLynchburg$56K
- Michael WeyantFalls Church$47K
- Mark JosephRoanoke$44K
- Justin MilliganVirginia Beach$42K
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.