Has Lindsey Saint, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,253 in general payments to Lindsey Saint, MD across 86 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Lindsey Saint, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Lindsey Saint, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Lindsey Saint, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Springfield, ILNPI 1386871069

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,253in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 86 payments — averaging $119.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$5K
Edwards Lifesciences$2K
Artivion, Inc.$2K
Abiomed$1K
Medtronic$335
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation$150
plus $552 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$6,06159%
Food & beverage$4,19241%

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
Atricure, Inc.	35	$4,752
Edwards Lifesciences	15	$1,840
Artivion, Inc.	4	$1,588
Abiomed	12	$1,035
Medtronic(2 entities)	4	$335
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation	1	$150
Baxter Healthcare	3	$126
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$107
Boston Scientific	1	$107
Zimmer Biomet	1	$59
Amgen	2	$37
Johnson & Johnson	2	$36
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	2	$29
Haemonetics Corporation	1	$20
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$16
Novartis	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.

EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,646
AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$1,440
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,222
EVOQUE$1,005
Impella$803
ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$397
Terumo Advanced Perfusion System 1$150
CDI Blood Parameter Monitoring System 550$150
Cardioblate$139
AngioVac$107
GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$107
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$101

How this compares

$10,253 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$92,008

Medicare patients

Services billed

183

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 Springfield

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Stephen HazelriggSpringfield$33K
Jeffrey ChristySpringfield$21K
Russell McElveenSpringfield$16K
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Douglas JohnstonChicago$1.3M
Patrick McCarthyChicago$1.1M
Duc PhamChicago$529K
James GrammOlympia Fields$386K
Valluvan JeevanandamChicago$366K

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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.

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