Has Joseph Bavaria, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,696,473 in general payments to Joseph Bavaria, MD across 932 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 Joseph Bavaria, 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 Joseph Bavaria, 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.

Joseph Bavaria, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Allentown, PANPI 1235186073

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (45.4%), royalties or licence payments and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 59.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $650,864 and has fallen 72.3% since, to $180,012 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$1,696,473in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 932 payments — averaging $1820.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$1M
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$501K
Baxter Healthcare$98K
Bolton Medical Inc$37K
Abbott$22K
Medtronic$21K
plus $14K from 11 others

$4,903,469in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 290 payments — averaging $16,909 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.

Edwards Lifesciences$4.7M
Abbott$56K
Corcym Inc$52K
Medtronic$48K
Bolton Medical Inc$20K
Cook Research Incorporated$6K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$531,81231%
Consulting fees$769,82045%
Speaking & faculty fees$239,97914%
Travel & lodging$105,1376%
Food & beverage$35,5652%
Education$14,1601%

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
Edwards Lifesciences	358	$1,004,214
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	343	$500,558
Baxter Healthcare	47	$98,495
Bolton Medical Inc	31	$36,586
Abbott	66	$21,974
Medtronic(2 entities)	34	$20,686
Artivion, Inc.	21	$11,361
Atricure, Inc.	12	$1,272
Paladin Technology Solutions	1	$336
Biostable Science & Engineering	1	$214
Corcym Inc	3	$174
Abiomed	6	$147
Cook Medical LLC	2	$134
Arthrex	2	$123
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	1	$89
Davol Inc.	3	$81
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation	1	$28

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.

Product in Development$167,158
GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$150,927
GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$129,723
FLOSEAL$68,933
GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$67,554
TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$52,071
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$26,397
PREVELEAK$23,105
C3 Delivery System$21,915
GORE DRYSEAL FLEX Introducer Sheath$21,915
EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$21,915
GORE EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis$21,915
GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$19,130
Avalus$16,679
KONECT RESILIA$16,309
THORAFLEX HYBRID$16,289
TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$13,855
COSEAL$13,611
TISSEEL$10,686
Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$10,618

How this compares

$1,696,473 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$10,264

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.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Allentown

Timothy MisselbeckAllentown$140K
James WuAllentown$24K
Basel RamlawiWynnewood$1.1M
Patrick RossWynnewood$956K
Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
Scott GoldmanWynnewood$354K
Frank BowenCamp Hill$310K
Michael AckerPhiladelphia$271K
Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$252K
Inderpal SarkariaPittsburgh$248K

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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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