RxDoctor Payments Data

Linda Bogar, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Falls Church, VANPI 1396765921

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,420 of the $4,416 with a category attached, or 77.4%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abiomed at 36.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,082 and has fallen 55.3% since, to $483 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $3,688.

$4,416in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $76.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abiomed$2K
  • Abbott$2K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$222
  • United Therapeutics Corporation$186
  • Teleflex LLC$183
  • Atricure, Inc.$177
  • plus $465 from 8 others
$13,574in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $1044.14 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.

  • Xvivo Perfusion Inc.$13K
  • Transmedics, Inc.$690

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$99623%
  • Food & beverage$3,42077%

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

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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.

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.

How this compares

$4,416 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 109 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$141,963
Medicare patients
97
Services billed
386

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Spironolactone11$18

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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