Lourens Willekes, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Savannah, GANPI 1255422267
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 164 payments — averaging $38.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Artivion, Inc.$800
- Baxter Healthcare$614
- Abbott$577
- Medtronic$398
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$270
- plus $3K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2033%
- Food & beverage$6,03197%
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
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. | 32 | $1,054 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 11 | $800 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 7 | $614 |
| Abbott | 12 | $577 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $398 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 12 | $270 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 8 | $249 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $241 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 8 | $222 |
| Davol Inc. | 6 | $205 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 6 | $192 |
| BD | 4 | $190 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 5 | $137 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $110 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 5 | $98 |
| Vertex | 3 | $91 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $78 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $77 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $68 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $57 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $51 |
| United Orthopedics LLC | 1 | $51 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $40 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $28 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $20 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $16 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $11 |
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.
- FLOSEAL$444
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$389
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$337
- Epic$183
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$171
- Mosaic$164
- Penditure$158
- Trifecta Tissue Heart Valve$150
- Impella$137
How this compares
$6,234 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 144 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Georgia.
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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 Savannah
- Jeremy LondonSavannah$1.6M
- Roberto RodriguezSavannah$1.2M
- Brian BaileySavannah$69K
- Glenn CarlosSavannah$24K
- Mark SuzukiSavannah$14K
- Vinod ThouraniMarietta$5.6M
- Robert GuytonAtlanta$1.3M
- John PuskasAtlanta$1.1M
- Mani DaneshmandAtlanta$924K
- Jeffrey MillerAtlanta$877K
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.