John Kuhn, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Richmond, INNPI 1598729618
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,020 of the $14,866 with a category attached, or 60.7%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 43.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,730 and has fallen 52.0% since, to $3,708 in 2025.
Across 143 payments — averaging $103.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Medtronic$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$592
- Johnson & Johnson$559
- Abiomed$383
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,33722%
- Food & beverage$9,02061%
- Education$2,50017%
- Gifts$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 25 | $6,488 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 39 | $3,453 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 15 | $1,936 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 7 | $592 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 9 | $559 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $383 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 5 | $178 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $177 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 6 | $171 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $133 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $126 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $113 |
| Abbott | 3 | $109 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $56 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $43 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $30 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $28 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $27 |
| BD | 1 | $26 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 1 | $14 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $13 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$5,979
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,546
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,401
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$859
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$820
- Avalus$727
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$702
- Signia$502
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$312
- Impella$261
- Echelon Flex$225
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$184
- KONECT RESILIA$175
- AngioVac$148
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$139
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$139
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$139
- WATCHMAN FLX$126
- VISTASEAL$113
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$112
How this compares
$14,866 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 127 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Indiana.
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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 Richmond
- Eric MunozRichmond$6K
- Marc GerdischIndianapolis$1.4M
- Jason FrazierMunster$574K
- James KellyGranger$242K
- Sina MoainieCarmel$184K
- Samuel JacobMuncie$182K
- Andrew BarksdaleIndianapolis$158K
- Manesh ParikshakIndianapolis$61K
- Joseph GreenleeFort Wayne$43K
- Nabeel El-AmirMuncie$38K
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.