Has Luigi Pirelli, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $155,114 in general payments to Luigi Pirelli, MD across 402 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 Luigi Pirelli, 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 Luigi Pirelli, 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.

Luigi Pirelli, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New York, NYNPI 1376749606

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (37.7%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 49.7% of the total. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in NY 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.

$155,114in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 402 payments — averaging $385.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$77K
Abbott$53K
Medtronic$22K
Boston Scientific$2K
Maquet Cardiopulmonary GmbH$800
Artivion, Inc.$318
plus $394 from 6 others

$6,688in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $3343.75 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.

Medtronic$7K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$58,43638%
Speaking & faculty fees$26,92517%
Grants$2,4042%
Travel & lodging$49,72632%
Food & beverage$17,62411%

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
Edwards Lifesciences	214	$77,057
Abbott	66	$52,660
Medtronic(2 entities)	102	$22,193
Boston Scientific	9	$1,692
Maquet Cardiopulmonary GmbH	1	$800
Artivion, Inc.	2	$318
Atricure, Inc.	3	$240
Teleflex LLC	1	$38
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$37
Guard Medical Inc.	1	$30
Convatec Inc.	1	$26
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$24

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

$155,114 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$219,231

Medicare patients

341

Services billed

465

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 New York

Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
Gilbert TangNew York$842K
Michael ZervosNew York$811K
Elias ZiasNew York$465K
Isaac GeorgeNew York$395K
Eugene GrossiNew York$350K
Costas BizekisNew York$321K
Brendon StilesNew York$314K
Daniela MolenaNew York$221K
Arnar GeirssonNew York$218K

See the full list for New York →

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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