Has John Costello received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,348 in general payments to John Costello across 226 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Costello did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Costello come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Costello

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Cleveland, OHNPI 1952531212

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,163 of the $9,348 with a category attached, or 87.3%. Abbott accounts for 63.8% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,126 and has fallen 77.2% since, to $712 in 2025.

$9,348in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 226 payments — averaging $41.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$6K
Medtronic$2K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$375
Biosense Webster, Inc.$354
Edwards Lifesciences$251
Boston Scientific$168
plus $318 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,18413%
Food & beverage$8,16387%

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	184	$5,960
Medtronic(2 entities)	18	$1,922
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	11	$375
Biosense Webster, Inc.	4	$354
Edwards Lifesciences	2	$251
Boston Scientific	2	$168
ZOLL Respicardia, Inc.	1	$144
Corcym Inc	1	$122
Solventum Corporation	2	$38
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$15

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.

How this compares

$9,348 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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