Juan Abreu, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Houston, TXNPI 1598053092
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 206 payments — averaging $93.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Abiomed$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abbott$858
- plus $4K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,45233%
- Food & beverage$12,86567%
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(2 entities) | 40 | $5,090 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 27 | $2,974 |
| Abiomed | 25 | $2,903 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 30 | $2,365 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $1,599 |
| Abbott | 11 | $858 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 4 | $561 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 7 | $468 |
| Amgen | 4 | $292 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $287 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 5 | $225 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $192 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $174 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $160 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $154 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $150 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $76 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $71 |
| Merck | 2 | $60 |
| Stryker | 2 | $60 |
| Mindray DS USA, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| On Target Laboratories, Inc | 2 | $48 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $45 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $30 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $28 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $25 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Mosaic$2,154
- Impella$2,128
- LOTUS EDGE$1,199
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$539
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$486
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$480
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$473
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$469
- ENDURANT IIS$399
- Micra$304
- Avalus$283
- Repatha$261
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$258
- FLOSEAL$174
- ONYX FRONTIER$171
- Orsiro Mission$160
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$158
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$148
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$145
- SternaLock Blu$142
How this compares
$19,317 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.
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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 Houston
- Michael ReardonHouston$2.7M
- Robert RipleyHouston$817K
- Danny RamzyHouston$620K
- Marc MoonHouston$476K
- Wayne HofstetterHouston$469K
- Eric PedenHouston$465K
- Gabriel LoorHouston$410K
- Igor GregoricHouston$359K
- Thomas MacgillivrayHouston$330K
- Min KimHouston$326K
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.