John Craig, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1245459403
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,042 of the $9,847 with a category attached, or 81.7%. 31 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 32.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,287 and has fallen 81.5% since, to $608 in 2025.
Across 180 payments — averaging $54.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Endologix LLC$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$994
- Abbott$492
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$290
- Artivion, Inc.$232
- plus $1K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$110%
- Travel & lodging$1,73318%
- Food & beverage$8,04282%
- Education$601%
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 | 70 | $3,195 |
| Endologix LLC | 14 | $3,174 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 25 | $994 |
| Abbott | 15 | $492 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $290 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 12 | $232 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $163 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $161 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $158 |
| Acclarent, Inc | 1 | $145 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $119 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $77 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $55 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $53 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $50 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $36 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $32 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Centerline Biomedical Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $13 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- AFX$1,912
- Ovation$1,619
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$328
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$247
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$163
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$147
- Acclarent Navwire$145
- Barostim Neo System$144
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$143
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$125
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$124
- Arikayce$122
- CoreValve Evolut$119
- MitraClip$111
- CARDIOHELP$102
- Impella$102
How this compares
$9,847 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 115 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Tennessee.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Furosemide | 11 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Chattanooga
- Mark BonnellChattanooga$141K
- James HeadrickChattanooga$46K
- Larry ShearsChattanooga$9K
- Jeffrey PoynterChattanooga$9K
- James ZellnerChattanooga$5K
- Grayson WheatleyNashville$900K
- V ReddyNashville$760K
- Harvey GarrettMemphis$712K
- Clayton KaiserNashville$124K
- Sreekumar SubramanianNashville$98K
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.