John Goncalves, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Mineola, NYNPI 1639150949
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $257,206 of the $332,051 with a category attached, or 77.5%. Medtronic accounts for 86.8% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $123,046 and has fallen 95.6% since, to $5,453 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 349 payments — averaging $951.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$288K
- Baxter Healthcare$28K
- Atricure, Inc.$6K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Artivion, Inc.$998
- plus $3K from 14 others
Across 17 payments — averaging $2169.96 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Edwards Lifesciences$37K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$27,4318%
- Speaking & faculty fees$257,20677%
- Travel & lodging$30,2129%
- Food & beverage$17,2025%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 189 | $288,351 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 14 | $27,773 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 36 | $5,917 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 38 | $4,034 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 21 | $1,736 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 8 | $998 |
| Abiomed | 11 | $724 |
| Abbott | 9 | $588 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 7 | $490 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $348 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $326 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 3 | $287 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $136 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $133 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $116 |
| Merck | 1 | $32 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
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.
- CoreValve Evolut$201,964
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$75,394
- No Related Product$17,124
- TISSEEL$6,650
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$3,291
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$2,144
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,357
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,258
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,256
- Mosaic$1,221
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,085
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$929
- ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$693
- DISSECTOR$693
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$624
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$526
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$487
- NAVITOR$465
- Avalus$452
- Impella$452
How this compares
$332,051 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
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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 Mineola
- Brian MitzmanMineola$105K
- Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
- Gilbert TangNew York$842K
- Michael ZervosNew York$811K
- Israel JacobowitzBrooklyn$529K
- Elias ZiasNew York$465K
- Arthur MartellaRochester$431K
- Isaac GeorgeNew York$395K
- Eugene GrossiNew York$350K
- Costas BizekisNew York$321K
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.