John Franco Carabello, DO
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Tulsa, OKNPI 1245390863
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,071 of the $13,498 with a category attached, or 82.0%. It is spread thinly across 43 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,162 and has fallen 76.0% since, to $997 in 2025.
Across 302 payments — averaging $44.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- Artivion, Inc.$857
- Abbott$821
- plus $5K from 37 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,35517%
- Food & beverage$11,07182%
- Education$711%
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.
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$833
- On-X$571
- Impella$517
- ECM Patch,Pouch$438
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$365
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$305
- Assurity Pacemaker$302
- OPTIMIZER$295
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$275
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$269
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$174
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$174
- NAVITOR$170
- MitraClip$164
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$148
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$141
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$141
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$131
- CoreValve Evolut$128
- 3F$126
How this compares
$13,498 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 48 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Oklahoma.
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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 Tulsa
- Matthew CooperTulsa$1.1M
- Kelly NagasawaTulsa$46K
- Ajit TharakanTulsa$30K
- Michael PhillipsTulsa$30K
- Paul KempeTulsa$18K
- Robert GarrettTulsa$13K
- James NeelTulsa$7K
- Shane YamaneTulsa$6K
- Kryston BoyerTulsa$4K
- David YandellTulsa$4K
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.