Has John Heiser received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $57,099 in general payments to John Heiser across 125 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 Heiser 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 Heiser 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 Heiser

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1174596639

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $46,500 of the $57,099 with a category attached, or 81.4%. Medtronic accounts for 95.0% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $29,128 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $172 in 2024. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$57,099in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 125 payments — averaging $456.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$54K
Ancora Heart, Inc.$2K
Boston Scientific$1K
Edwards Lifesciences$155
Baxter Healthcare$14

$923,262in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 182 payments — averaging $5072.87 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.

Medtronic$923K

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$46,50081%
Travel & lodging$6,77712%
Food & beverage$3,8227%

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)	114	$54,223
Ancora Heart, Inc.	4	$1,561
Boston Scientific	5	$1,145
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$155
Baxter Healthcare	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$40,554
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$7,237
AccuCinch$1,561
Mosaic$1,533
GENERAL - THERAPIES$998
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$155

How this compares

$57,099 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.

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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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