Joseph Flack, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Chicopee, MANPI 1629095294
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $17,461 of the $22,379 with a category attached, or 78.0%. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bolton Medical Inc at 29.8% of the total.
Across 255 payments — averaging $87.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bolton Medical Inc$7K
- Edwards Lifesciences$7K
- Medtronic$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3452%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,2005%
- Travel & lodging$3,37315%
- Food & beverage$17,46178%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bolton Medical Inc | 53 | $6,678 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 93 | $6,568 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 36 | $2,386 |
| Abbott | 24 | $1,772 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 3 | $1,547 |
| Abiomed | 18 | $1,266 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 2 | $366 |
| Stryker | 1 | $174 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 2 | $174 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $165 |
| Amgen | 1 | $125 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $125 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $125 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $119 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $110 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $109 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $92 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $88 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $87 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $21 |
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.
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$3,748
- Relay Plus$3,247
- Perceval$1,547
- Impella$999
- Grafts$637
- Epic$540
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$442
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$413
- Relay Grafts$365
- NephroCheck Test Kit$345
- Avalus$337
- CoreValve Evolut$311
- Mosaic$307
- Penditure$302
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$216
- NA$174
- Mitra Clip system$171
- MiraQ$165
- NAVITOR$147
- 3F$143
How this compares
$22,379 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 171 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Massachusetts.
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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 Chicopee
- Elliot ServaisBurlington$689K
- Daniel EngelmanSpringfield$607K
- Daniel RaessBoxford$429K
- Lana Schumacher BealBoston$254K
- Sidney LevitskyBoston$248K
- Robert ThurerBoston$229K
- Margaret MarshallBoston$122K
- Pedro del NidoBoston$119K
- Akinobu ItohBoston$102K
- Amy HackmannBoston$80K
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.