Jose Amortegui, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Fountain Hill, PANPI 1265697791
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 260 payments — averaging $118.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$22K
- Edwards Lifesciences$6K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$389
- Abbott$260
- Philips North America LLC$169
- plus $36 from 1 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $2000.00 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$2K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$17,79358%
- Food & beverage$12,90642%
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) | 160 | $22,211 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 81 | $5,608 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 8 | $2,027 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 4 | $389 |
| Abbott | 4 | $260 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $169 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $36 |
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 R$15,346
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,333
- EVOQUE$1,165
- SERENA QUAD CRT-P MRI SURESCAN$1,058
- PASCAL$1,001
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$608
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$457
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$431
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$328
- AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$304
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$269
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$264
- Micra$261
- AngioVac$197
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$186
- CoreValve Evolut$152
- (9124) LM Undivided$147
- Visia AF$140
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$128
- MyCareLink$127
How this compares
$30,699 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 13 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Fountain Hill
- Joseph BavariaAllentown$6.6M
- Mubashir MumtazHarrisburg$5M
- Basel RamlawiWynnewood$4.4M
- Ibrahim SultanPgh.$2.9M
- Nimesh DesaiPhiladelphia$1.6M
- Benny WekslerPittsburgh$1.5M
- Stephen BaileyPittsburgh$1.3M
- Scott GoldmanWynnewood$1.1M
- Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$1.1M
- Patrick RossWynnewood$956K
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.