Joshua Grimm, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Philadelphia, PANPI 1457672701
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (33.3%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bolton Medical Inc at 51.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $21,021 and has fallen 80.2% since, to $4,172 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 181 payments — averaging $309.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bolton Medical Inc$29K
- Edwards Lifesciences$8K
- Cook Incorporated$6K
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- plus $6K from 15 others
Across 75 payments — averaging $1646.39 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.
- Bolton Medical Inc$87K
- Artivion, Inc.$37K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$18,70033%
- Speaking & faculty fees$12,43022%
- Travel & lodging$14,14225%
- Food & beverage$9,13716%
- Education$1,6943%
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 | 64 | $28,781 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 21 | $8,134 |
| Cook Incorporated | 6 | $5,678 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $2,861 |
| Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated | 1 | $2,550 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 14 | $1,685 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 15 | $1,553 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 12 | $1,135 |
| Abbott | 12 | $724 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 4 | $651 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $616 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $407 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $382 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $334 |
| Corcym Inc | 2 | $147 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $146 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $112 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $46 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$15,500
- Cook$5,336
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$4,167
- Zenith Alpha$3,604
- Grafts$3,336
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$2,730
- VISTASEAL$2,730
- KONECT RESILIA$1,153
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$1,067
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$616
- Relay Grafts$583
- Impella$407
- PORTICO$334
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$294
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$283
- STENTS$279
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$274
- ROSEN$269
- Perceval$233
- ENDURANT IIS$177
How this compares
$56,103 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 Philadelphia
- Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
- Michael AckerPhiladelphia$271K
- Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$252K
- Nimesh DesaiPhiladelphia$203K
- Nathaniel EvansPhiladelphia$187K
- Marisa CevascoPhiladelphia$186K
- Pavan AtluriPhiladelphia$165K
- Chase BrownPhiladelphia$137K
- Olugbenga OkusanyaPhiladelphia$132K
- Michael IbrahimPhiladelphia$66K
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.