Keith Allen, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Kansas City, KSNPI 1609804855
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,741 payments — averaging $1457.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$978K
- Abbott$554K
- Zimmer Biomet$384K
- CSL Behring$323K
- Medtronic$234K
- Pi-cardia, Inc.$19K
- plus $46K from 25 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $2777.60 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.
- Artivion, Inc.$25K
- Abbott$5K
- Zimmer Biomet$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,577,54777%
- Speaking & faculty fees$203,81510%
- Travel & lodging$212,69510%
- Food & beverage$30,8122%
- Education$19,3751%
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 | 584 | $977,628 |
| Abbott | 316 | $554,394 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 472 | $383,770 |
| CSL Behring | 48 | $323,129 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 260 | $233,682 |
| Pi-cardia, Inc. | 1 | $18,525 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $9,750 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $9,575 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 5 | $6,842 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 4 | $5,942 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $4,026 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 4 | $3,557 |
| BD | 7 | $2,215 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $678 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $528 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $431 |
| Endologix LLC | 3 | $429 |
| ZOLL Medical Corporation | 1 | $420 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $263 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $212 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $172 |
| Stryker | 1 | $156 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $147 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $144 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $94 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $33 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$951,234
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$207,293
- SternaLock Blu$66,204
- SternaLock 360$40,812
- NAVITOR$33,010
- A&E MEDICAL / STERNALOCK XP RIGID FIXATION SYSTEM$28,990
- STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$25,940
- STERNALOCK 360 SYSTEM$25,875
- Shortcut$18,525
- A&E Medical / Thorecon Disposable Plate Cutter$15,875
- STERNALOCK$13,251
- Barostim Neo System$9,750
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$6,842
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$6,842
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$6,690
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$6,690
- ECM Patch,Pouch$5,942
- Thoracic Reconstruction$5,406
- CoreValve Evolut$5,082
- Tendyne Mitral Valve System$3,976
How this compares
$2,537,110 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 42 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Kansas.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $76 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Jordan WilkersonKansas City$12K
- Chad CashKansas City$9K
- Todd CrawfordKansas City$8K
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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.