Katharina Fetten, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Dallas, TXNPI 1871976605
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (51.1%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 30 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.7%.
Across 197 payments — averaging $120.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Transmedics, Inc.$5K
- Abbott$5K
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- plus $4K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$12,13551%
- Food & beverage$8,76537%
- Education$2,84912%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Transmedics, Inc. | 4 | $5,157 |
| Abbott | 47 | $5,145 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 24 | $3,195 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $2,558 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 12 | $2,242 |
| Abiomed | 11 | $1,331 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 11 | $1,209 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 41 | $832 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $407 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $260 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $241 |
| Kaneka Medical America LLC | 1 | $181 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $149 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 5 | $127 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $116 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $110 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $56 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $36 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Procyrion, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| GSK | 1 | $20 |
| Briohealth Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $10 |
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.
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$5,157
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$2,044
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,703
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$1,604
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,569
- DAVINCI XI$1,500
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,336
- NAVITOR$1,184
- Impella$1,112
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,000
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$764
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$419
- MitraClip$325
- Paragonix LUNGguard SherpaCool$299
- Paragonix LUNGguard Shipper$299
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$292
- ProGrip$226
- Paragonix SherpaPak Cardiac Transport System$216
- SherpaCool Box$216
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$192
How this compares
$23,750 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 Dallas
- Robert HebelerDallas$723K
- Michael WaitDallas$187K
- Juan MachannafordDallas$164K
- Aldo Rafael-YarihuamanDallas$142K
- Todd DeweyDallas$128K
- Gary SchwartzDallas$77K
- Jaye WestonDallas$70K
- Brandon HillDallas$53K
- Ryan DaviesDallas$51K
- Dan MeyerDallas$47K
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.