Kyle Eudailey
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Birmingham, ALNPI 1063709624
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (41.8%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Artivion, Inc. at 35.2% of the total. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 302 payments — averaging $610.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Artivion, Inc.$65K
- Medtronic$48K
- Bolton Medical Inc$44K
- Edwards Lifesciences$22K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- Abbott$838
- plus $2K from 8 others
Across 29 payments — averaging $6630.23 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.$116K
- Bolton Medical Inc$50K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$26K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$76,98742%
- Speaking & faculty fees$45,99525%
- Travel & lodging$40,85022%
- Food & beverage$15,3188%
- Education$5,1603%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Artivion, Inc. | 41 | $64,914 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 92 | $47,950 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 83 | $44,359 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 46 | $21,718 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 14 | $2,575 |
| Abbott | 7 | $838 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $716 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 7 | $567 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $172 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $151 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $125 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $119 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $62 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $43 |
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.
- E-vita OPEN NEO$31,368
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$24,671
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$23,831
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$12,907
- CoreValve Evolut$12,581
- Valiant Captivia$6,244
- Relay Grafts$5,456
- ARCEVO LSA$4,275
- Relay Plus$4,237
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$4,177
- Jotec Products$1,953
- THORAFLEX HYBRID$1,952
- ENDURANT IIS$1,596
- Product in Development$1,581
- Grafts$1,519
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$733
- TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$667
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$415
- MitraClip$316
- Impella$286
How this compares
$184,309 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 68 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Alabama.
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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 | 42 | $155 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Birmingham
- Carlton RandlemanBirmingham$161K
- James DaviesBirmingham$99K
- Andrew PapoyBirmingham$63K
- Sara PereiraBirmingham$62K
- Panayotis VardasBirmingham$49K
- Clifton LewisBirmingham$47K
- Benjamin WeiBirmingham$18K
- Douglas MinnichBirmingham$10K
- John ThurberBirmingham$7K
- Sasha StillBirmingham$7K
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.