Kareem Bedeir, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Mobile, ALNPI 1407116205
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (59.8%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 26.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,693 and has fallen 56.4% since, to $2,483 in 2025.
Across 128 payments — averaging $159.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Medtronic$4K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Artivion, Inc.$2K
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- plus $2K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,4967%
- Travel & lodging$12,22460%
- Food & beverage$6,49532%
- Education$2241%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 36 | $5,455 |
| Medtronic | 17 | $3,500 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 18 | $3,089 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 12 | $2,846 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 15 | $1,876 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $1,802 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 5 | $799 |
| Abbott | 3 | $306 |
| Corcym Inc | 7 | $264 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 4 | $250 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $57 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $26 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, 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.
- Octopus$2,676
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$2,645
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$2,151
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$2,097
- FLOSEAL$1,618
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$1,511
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$1,082
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$951
- Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring$780
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$585
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$404
- Valiant Captivia$400
- Relay Grafts$274
- Perceval$265
- Epic$142
How this compares
$20,439 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amiodarone Hcl | 16 | $359 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 25 | $116 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 32 | $112 |
| Methocarbamol | 16 | $49 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 28 | $47 |
| Furosemide | 21 | $28 |
| Carvedilol | 12 | $28 |
| Potassium Chloride | 11 | $21 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Mobile
- Carl MalteseMobile$11K
- Dimitris KyriazisMobile$10K
- Charles WyattMobile$9K
- Robert WilsonMobile$5K
- William RicksMobile$5K
- Osman HashmiMobile$5K
- Peter PluschtMobile$4K
- Parker MullenMobile$4K
- William JohnsonMobile$3K
- Matthew WoodsMobile$3K
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.