Kunal Deepak Kotkar, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Saint Louis, MONPI 1104292275
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $20,717 of the $33,164 with a category attached, or 62.5%. Abiomed accounts for 72.5% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 205 payments — averaging $161.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$24K
- Abbott$4K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$852
- Medtronic$633
- KCI USA, Inc.$525
- plus $1K from 9 others
Across 32 payments — averaging $2889.77 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.
- Edwards Lifesciences$55K
- Medtronic$28K
- Abbott$10K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$20,71762%
- Food & beverage$11,90036%
- Education$5462%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 121 | $24,039 |
| Abbott | 42 | $4,273 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 8 | $1,468 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 8 | $852 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $633 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $525 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $492 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $345 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $199 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $167 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $64 |
| Stryker | 1 | $60 |
| Bayer | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Impella$17,161
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,973
- AngioVac$1,301
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$682
- V.A.C. VERAFLO$525
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$448
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$286
- HeartWare HVAD$284
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$255
- SternaLock Blu$237
- MitraClip$185
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$173
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$167
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$167
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$167
- PHOTOFIX DECELLULARIZED BOVINE PERICARDIUM$167
- ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$148
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$146
- TISSEEL$143
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$143
How this compares
$33,164 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 113 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Missouri.
See all thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Missouri →
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 19 | $118 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 12 | $53 |
| Carvedilol | 13 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Saint Louis
- Tsuyoshi KanekoSaint Louis$353K
- Ralph DamianoSaint Louis$134K
- Puja KachrooSaint Louis$57K
- Umraan AhmadSaint Louis$51K
- Nabil MunfakhSaint Louis$44K
- Shuddhadeb RaySaint Louis$38K
- Joshua BakerSaint Louis$36K
- Alexander BresciaSaint Louis$35K
- George PattersonSaint Louis$23K
- Muhammad MasoodSaint Louis$23K
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.