Luis Castro, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Redwood City, CANPI 1679587893
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 147 payments — averaging $376.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$30K
- Abbott$20K
- Medtronic$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Baxter Healthcare$195
- Clearflow Inc.$138
- plus $161 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,50021%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,52528%
- Grants$1,1234%
- Travel & lodging$6,27321%
- Food & beverage$7,90026%
- Education$420%
- Other$1450%
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. | 39 | $30,062 |
| Abbott | 62 | $19,742 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 23 | $3,934 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 10 | $1,111 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $195 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 2 | $138 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $61 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $21 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Stryker | 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.
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$9,911
- Epic$7,475
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$4,277
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$3,544
- CoreValve Evolut$1,590
- 3F$1,123
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$425
- Avalus$375
- HeartWare HVAD$370
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$359
- MitraClip$326
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$297
- Trifecta Tissue Heart Valve$157
- Hillrom - Spot Vision Screener$145
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$143
- Hancock$101
How this compares
$55,342 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Torsemide | 12 | $102 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Redwood City
- Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
- Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
- Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$1.4M
- Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$963K
- Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
- Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
- Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$901K
- Michael FischbeinPalo Alto$899K
- Jay LeeLos Angeles$856K
- William HiesingerPalo Alto$815K
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.