Has Jonathan Zurcher, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $30,571 in general payments to Jonathan Zurcher, MD across 56 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 Jonathan Zurcher, 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 Jonathan Zurcher, 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.

Jonathan Zurcher, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Atlanta, GANPI 1528452091

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $23,000 of the $30,571 with a category attached, or 75.2%. Medtronic accounts for 76.9% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $24,804 and has fallen 92.1% since, to $1,963 in 2025.

$30,571in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 56 payments — averaging $545.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$24K
Artivion, Inc.$2K
Edwards Lifesciences$2K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
Cook Medical LLC$475
Cook Incorporated$392
plus $661 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Grants$23,00075%
Travel & lodging$4,55515%
Food & beverage$3,01610%

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	3	$23,521
Artivion, Inc.	15	$2,150
Edwards Lifesciences	13	$1,903
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	10	$1,469
Cook Medical LLC	6	$475
Cook Incorporated	1	$392
Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical)	2	$239
Abiomed	1	$129
Baxter Healthcare	1	$94
Abbott	1	$94
United Orthopedics LLC	1	$61
Atricure, Inc.	2	$46

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.

ENDURANT IIS$23,517
Product in Development$1,139
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$980
Cardiac non-SynerGraft$834
Cook$738
AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$393
ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$393
CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$393
BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$393
VASCULAR$263
GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$161

How this compares

$30,571 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 144 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$32,636

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Oxycodone Hcl	14	$73

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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