Karolis Bauza, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Atlanta, GANPI 1235615907
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 80 payments — averaging $78.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Corcym Inc$947
- Edwards Lifesciences$355
- Davol Inc.$325
- Bolton Medical Inc$264
- plus $668 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,87630%
- Food & beverage$4,43370%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 26 | $2,015 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 18 | $1,734 |
| Corcym Inc | 9 | $947 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 5 | $355 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $325 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 6 | $264 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 2 | $164 |
| Stryker | 1 | $115 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $114 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $41 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $38 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $34 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $16 |
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.
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,069
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$986
- Perceval$732
- CARDIOMEMS$651
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$415
- Progel Applicator Spray Tips$325
- Epic$320
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$121
- MEMO 4D$119
- NA$115
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$108
- SherpaPak$104
How this compares
$6,309 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 11 | $107 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Atlanta
- Elizabeth OfiliAtlanta$4.5M
- Sanjay YadavAtlanta$3.7M
- Arshed QuyyumiAtlanta$3.4M
- Bobby KhanAtlanta$1.7M
- Michael MorrisAtlanta$1.1M
- Modele OgunniyiAtlanta$1M
- Joseph MillerAtlanta$771K
- Mani VannanAtlanta$716K
- Gautam KumarAtlanta$639K
- Melvin EcholsAtlanta$461K
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.