Kathleen McMichael, PA
Surgical · Clearwater, FLNPI 1558666198
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $64,688 of the $96,007 with a category attached, or 67.4%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 96.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $44,535, more than ten times the $2,075 reported in 2021. Among surgical clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 272 payments — averaging $352.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$93K
- Abiomed$1K
- Medtronic$842
- Artivion, Inc.$689
- Edwards Lifesciences$192
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$109
- plus $185 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$64,68867%
- Travel & lodging$21,24022%
- Food & beverage$10,07910%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 222 | $92,939 |
| Abiomed | 12 | $1,052 |
| Medtronic | 20 | $842 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 5 | $689 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $192 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $109 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $81 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $35 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $11 |
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$77,454
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$13,568
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$5,827
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$3,603
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$1,684
- Impella$848
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$603
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$286
- VASCULAR$169
- LINQ II$116
- Vasoview Hemopro 2$109
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$105
How this compares
$96,007 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,018 surgical providers in Florida.
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 surgical in Clearwater
- Christopher EdelmanClearwater$10K
- Aaron SookhooBrandon$742K
- Jessica McCarrySt Petersburg$445K
- Harmony ChurchTallahassee$265K
- Pamela LiggettMiami$120K
- Stephanie CarrollPalm Beach Gardens$114K
- Christina NauglePalm Beach Gardens$96K
- Michael SullivanSarasota$91K
- Dana ZeitlerNaples$73K
- William UlrichBoynton Beach$68K
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.