Konstadinos Plestis, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Abington, PANPI 1972556389
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (34.4%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 29 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.3%. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in PA 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.
Across 374 payments — averaging $182.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baxter Healthcare$16K
- Arthrex$12K
- Atricure, Inc.$9K
- Synthes USA Products LLC$6K
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$5K
- Abbott$5K
- plus $15K from 23 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $525.00 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.
- Abbott$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$23,44034%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3661%
- Travel & lodging$9,24014%
- Food & beverage$21,65132%
- Education$13,40020%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Healthcare | 23 | $15,867 |
| Arthrex | 8 | $12,378 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 87 | $8,877 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 5 | $6,477 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 10 | $5,091 |
| Abbott | 99 | $4,692 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 31 | $3,209 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 18 | $2,869 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 17 | $2,159 |
| Paladin Technology Solutions | 11 | $1,889 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 18 | $1,279 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 7 | $1,054 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $571 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $499 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $320 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $196 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $142 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $137 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $77 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Novartis | 4 | $60 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $52 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $26 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Mizuho America, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Amgen | 1 | $21 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 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.
- COSEAL$13,625
- HEMOPATCH$13,500
- iCAST$4,800
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$4,028
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$1,102
- Avalus$991
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$927
- Cook$767
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$766
- Epic$709
- Relay Grafts$700
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$682
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$669
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$600
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$556
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$526
- Grafts$477
- Impella$363
- ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$317
- NAVITOR$315
How this compares
$68,097 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 Abington
- Mauricio GarridoAbington$36K
- Joseph BavariaAllentown$1.7M
- Basel RamlawiWynnewood$1.1M
- Patrick RossWynnewood$956K
- Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
- Scott GoldmanWynnewood$354K
- Frank BowenCamp Hill$310K
- Michael AckerPhiladelphia$271K
- Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$252K
- Inderpal SarkariaPittsburgh$248K
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.