Kapil Sharma, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Sacramento, CANPI 1871601054
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 250 payments — averaging $256.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$28K
- Medtronic$24K
- Edwards Lifesciences$6K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$867
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$19,43855%
- Travel & lodging$7,76822%
- Food & beverage$8,02923%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 67 | $28,308 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 55 | $24,274 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 26 | $6,386 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 14 | $1,849 |
| Abiomed | 23 | $1,331 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 28 | $867 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 5 | $240 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 11 | $195 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 4 | $148 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 3 | $112 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $100 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $85 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $82 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $23 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 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.
- Valiant Captivia$22,553
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,169
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$1,019
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$994
- Impella$818
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$566
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$488
- ENDURANT IIS$427
- MitraClip$257
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$131
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$102
How this compares
$64,156 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.
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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 Sacramento
- Allen MorrisSacramento$350K
- Frank SlachmanSacramento$347K
- Bob KiaiiSacramento$247K
- Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
- Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
- Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$1.4M
- Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$963K
- Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
- Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
- Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$901K
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.