Kim de la Cruz, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Charlottesville, VANPI 1902059447
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (35.1%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bolton Medical Inc at 39.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $15,189 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $14 in 2025.
Across 252 payments — averaging $136.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bolton Medical Inc$14K
- Edwards Lifesciences$8K
- Medtronic$4K
- GE HealthCare$2K
- Artivion, Inc.$2K
- Cook Medical LLC$1K
- plus $4K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,20018%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,00012%
- Travel & lodging$7,67322%
- Food & beverage$12,10335%
- Education$4,50013%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bolton Medical Inc | 45 | $13,598 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 27 | $8,375 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 93 | $3,782 |
| GE HealthCare | 20 | $2,236 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $1,540 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 21 | $1,178 |
| Abiomed | 10 | $1,038 |
| Cook Incorporated | 3 | $608 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $500 |
| Stryker | 3 | $238 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $169 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $148 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $127 |
| Novartis | 1 | $125 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $123 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $120 |
| Abbott | 2 | $109 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $50 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $22 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$6,000
- Grafts$5,315
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$1,516
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$1,248
- Impella$929
- CoreValve Evolut$710
- MC3 NAUTILUS(TM) ECMO OXYGENATOR$675
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$667
- Relay Grafts$639
- Cook Medical AFEN$574
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$372
- Cook$302
- Relay Plus$260
- Cook Medical AAA$236
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$217
- KONECT RESILIA$182
- ENDURANT IIS$180
- Penditure$173
- Valiant Captivia$173
- Zenith Spiral-Z$163
How this compares
$34,475 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 109 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Virginia.
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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 Charlottesville
- Linda MartinCharlottesville$76K
- Leora YarboroCharlottesville$27K
- Adanna AkujuoCharlottesville$16K
- Walker JulliardCharlottesville$15K
- Mary Carolyn VinsonCharlottesville$8K
- Philip CarrottCharlottesville$6K
- Jared BellerCharlottesville$5K
- Erik ScottCharlottesville$4K
- Clinton KempNorfolk$367K
- Sandeep KhandharFairfax$261K
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.