Has John Ofenloch, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $37,266 in general payments to John Ofenloch, MD across 217 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 Ofenloch, MD 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 Ofenloch, MD 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 Ofenloch, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Clearwater, FLNPI 1457325268

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (33.0%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 53.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $20,759, 9.0 times the $2,306 reported in 2019.

$37,266in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 217 payments — averaging $171.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$20K
Baxter Healthcare$6K
Medtronic$5K
Artivion, Inc.$2K
Edwards Lifesciences$2K
Intuitive Surgical$1K
plus $2K from 13 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$9,75026%
Speaking & faculty fees$720%
Travel & lodging$12,31533%
Food & beverage$9,48225%
Education$5,64815%

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
Atricure, Inc.	77	$19,737
Baxter Healthcare	2	$5,667
Medtronic(2 entities)	67	$4,554
Artivion, Inc.	14	$2,130
Edwards Lifesciences	18	$1,745
Intuitive Surgical	4	$1,201
Abiomed	14	$1,099
Abbott	6	$591
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	1	$109
Lexington Medical, Inc.	1	$96
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	2	$66
Bsn Medical Inc	1	$44
Zimmer Biomet	3	$39
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$36
Osiris Therapeutics Inc.	1	$34
Davol Inc.	1	$34
Johnson & Johnson	1	$33
Stryker	1	$33
GE HealthCare	1	$22

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.

How this compares

$37,266 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$193,748

Medicare patients

116

Services billed

298

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
Warfarin Sodium	68	$415
JantovenWarfarin Sodium	39	$252
Mupirocin	15	$83
Metoprolol Tartrate	44	$80
Potassium Chloride	17	$64
Amiodarone Hcl	49	$60
Furosemide	13	$21

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Clearwater

Joshua RovinClearwater$143K
Michael KayattaClearwater$60K
Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
Barry WintonLargo$687K
Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$666K
John PirrisJacksonville$640K
Jacques FontaineTampa$630K
Andrew ShermanTampa$517K
Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$515K
Daniel O'HairFort Myers$429K

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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.

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