John Watson, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Springfield, ILNPI 1871596726
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 72 payments — averaging $68.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$500
- Abiomed$331
- Livanova USA, Inc.$276
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$215
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,09542%
- Food & beverage$2,83558%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 10 | $1,316 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 13 | $1,072 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 8 | $500 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $331 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 5 | $276 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $215 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $210 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $198 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $142 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $123 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $106 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $69 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $64 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $30 |
| Merck | 1 | $29 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $18 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $15 |
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
$4,929 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Illinois.
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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 Springfield
- William StevensSpringfield$44K
- Stephen HazelriggSpringfield$33K
- Jeffrey ChristySpringfield$21K
- Russell McElveenSpringfield$16K
- S Christopher MalaisrieChicago$1.8M
- Douglas JohnstonChicago$1.3M
- Patrick McCarthyChicago$1.1M
- Duc PhamChicago$529K
- James GrammOlympia Fields$386K
- Valluvan JeevanandamChicago$366K
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.