Juan Gallegos, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Huntsville, ALNPI 1073809778
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,220 of the $8,580 with a category attached, or 60.8%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Artivion, Inc. at 31.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,510, 5.4 times the $464 reported in 2019.
Across 107 payments — averaging $80.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Artivion, Inc.$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Abiomed$951
- Edwards Lifesciences$797
- Atricure, Inc.$577
- Medtronic$511
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,36139%
- Food & beverage$5,22061%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Artivion, Inc. | 18 | $2,724 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $1,508 |
| Abiomed | 13 | $951 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 8 | $797 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 13 | $577 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 20 | $511 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 6 | $473 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 3 | $278 |
| Abbott | 2 | $232 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $131 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 2 | $87 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $71 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,457
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$1,180
- On-X$1,116
- Impella$497
- Reveal LINQ$152
- NAVITOR$149
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$147
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$139
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$137
- Relay Grafts$131
- KONECT RESILIA$129
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$103
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$103
- ECM Patch,Pouch$102
How this compares
$8,580 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 48 | $27,390 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 120 | $748 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 48 | $622 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 50 | $417 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 87 | $253 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 41 | $235 |
| Potassium Chloride | 38 | $131 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 13 | $105 |
| Carvedilol | 31 | $96 |
| Famotidine | 23 | $88 |
| Methocarbamol | 25 | $85 |
| Furosemide | 38 | $39 |
| Lisinopril | 11 | $35 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Huntsville
- Frans VanwagenbergHuntsville$68K
- Shaf HoldenHuntsville$32K
- Gregory ThomasHuntsville$16K
- Andres SamayoaHuntsville$12K
- Richard ClayHuntsville$6K
- Thomas WashburnHuntsville$3K
- Kyle EudaileyBirmingham$184K
- Carlton RandlemanBirmingham$161K
- James DaviesBirmingham$99K
- Parvez SultanVestavia$81K
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.