Joseph Bavaria, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Allentown, PANPI 1235186073
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,222 payments — averaging $5400.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$5.7M
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$501K
- Baxter Healthcare$98K
- Abbott$78K
- Medtronic$69K
- Bolton Medical Inc$56K
- plus $72K from 12 others
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 | 597 | $5,725,891 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 343 | $500,558 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 47 | $98,495 |
| Abbott | 92 | $77,873 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 45 | $68,750 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 33 | $56,325 |
| Corcym Inc | 10 | $52,215 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 21 | $11,361 |
| Cook Research Incorporated | 5 | $6,050 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 12 | $1,272 |
| Paladin Technology Solutions | 1 | $336 |
| Biostable Science & Engineering | 1 | $214 |
| 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
$6,599,942 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
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$242K
- James WuAllentown$133K
- Jeffrey VeluzAllentown$114K
- Ahmed NassarAllentown$47K
- Mubashir MumtazHarrisburg$5M
- Basel RamlawiWynnewood$4.4M
- Ibrahim SultanPgh.$2.9M
- Nimesh DesaiPhiladelphia$1.6M
- Benny WekslerPittsburgh$1.5M
- Stephen BaileyPittsburgh$1.3M
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.