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Kathryn O'Keefe, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1407052723

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $100,125 of the $123,046 with a category attached, or 81.4%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 93.9% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $41,814 and has fallen 85.5% since, to $6,077 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$123,046in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 317 payments — averaging $388.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Atricure, Inc.$116K
  • Abiomed$3K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$1K
  • Abbott$610
  • Haemonetics Corporation$177
  • plus $755 from 11 others
$1,215,112in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 455 payments — averaging $2670.58 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Atricure, Inc.$1.2M

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$100,12581%
  • Travel & lodging$13,07811%
  • Food & beverage$9,8138%
  • Education$300%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Atricure, Inc.168$115,564
Abiomed21$2,739
Medtronic(2 entities)66$2,058
Edwards Lifesciences29$1,142
Abbott12$610
Haemonetics Corporation2$177
Smith+Nephew1$148
Covidien LP1$135
Angiodynamics, Inc.2$121
Boehringer Ingelheim5$89
Livanova USA, Inc.1$75
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)3$56
LSI Solutions Inc2$51
Irhythm Technologies, Inc.1$39
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC1$15
Amgen1$13
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)1$13

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.

How this compares

$123,046 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$133,148
Medicare patients
110
Services billed
303

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Atorvastatin Calcium18$252
Metoprolol Tartrate30$95
Potassium Chloride19$77
Gabapentin11$47
Furosemide17$20

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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