John Costello
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Cleveland, OHNPI 1952531212
Payments from drug & device makers
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.
- Tri-Ad$1,385
- AVEIR$878
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$251
- Fortify Assura, Ellipse ICD$235
- Carto 3 System$232
- ENSITE$172
- Watchman$145
- remede System$144
- AMPLATZER$128
- Perceval$122
- Arctic Front$120
- Assurity Pacemaker$109
- Quartet CRT Lead$103
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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Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Cleveland
- Edward SolteszCleveland$1.2M
- Alan Marc GillinovCleveland$1M
- Alejandro BribriescoCleveland$968K
- Alan MarkowitzCleveland$951K
- Eric RoselliCleveland$933K
- Cristian BaezaCleveland$464K
- Salil DeoCleveland$419K
- Tomislav MihaljevicCleveland$387K
- Christopher ToweCleveland$370K
- Zhen-Yu TongCleveland$269K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.