Joseph Martinez, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Vestavia, ALNPI 1326305491
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 24.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,096, more than ten times the $20 reported in 2020.
Across 113 payments — averaging $85.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Artivion, Inc.$925
- Abiomed$565
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,77549%
- Food & beverage$4,92851%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 18 | $2,416 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 18 | $2,075 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 23 | $1,477 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,159 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 12 | $925 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $565 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 6 | $341 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $158 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $122 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $103 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 4 | $76 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $50 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $47 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $45 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $43 |
| BD | 1 | $25 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Octopus$1,758
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,529
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$1,032
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$619
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$615
- Impella$400
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$373
- Penditure$266
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$122
- Tandem Life Kit$106
- COSEAL$104
How this compares
$9,703 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 68 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Alabama.
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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 Succinate | 13 | $155 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 33 | $63 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Vestavia
- Parvez SultanVestavia$81K
- Tyler WahlVestavia$53K
- Trent HowardVestavia$24K
- Kyle EudaileyBirmingham$184K
- Carlton RandlemanBirmingham$161K
- James DaviesBirmingham$99K
- Frans VanwagenbergHuntsville$68K
- Andrew PapoyBirmingham$63K
- Sara PereiraBirmingham$62K
- Panayotis VardasBirmingham$49K
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.