Kenji Minakata, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Philadelphia, PANPI 1215241062
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 99 payments — averaging $112.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$5K
- Abiomed$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Artivion, Inc.$950
- Abbott$292
- Medtronic$241
- plus $247 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,96045%
- Food & beverage$6,15555%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 33 | $4,991 |
| Abiomed | 26 | $2,425 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 21 | $1,969 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 5 | $950 |
| Abbott | 4 | $292 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $241 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $91 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $54 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $50 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Medicomp Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Werfen USA LLC | 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.
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$2,599
- Impella$1,720
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,008
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$973
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$739
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$654
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$476
- ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$476
- DISSECTOR$476
- PASCAL$473
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$263
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$179
- CoreValve Evolut$145
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$132
- HeartMate$119
How this compares
$11,115 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 Philadelphia
- Nimesh DesaiPhiladelphia$1.6M
- Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$1.1M
- Yoshiya ToyodaPhiladelphia$659K
- Pavan AtluriPhiladelphia$645K
- Michael AckerPhiladelphia$579K
- Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
- Nathaniel EvansPhiladelphia$230K
- Christian BermudezPhiladelphia$195K
- Marisa CevascoPhiladelphia$188K
- John EntwistlePhiladelphia$188K
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.