Luis Cerda, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Albuquerque, NMNPI 1780944702
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (37.5%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 44.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $10,809 and has fallen 75.6% since, to $2,639 in 2025.
Across 170 payments — averaging $121.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Atricure, Inc.$4K
- Medtronic$3K
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- Davol Inc.$787
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,5908%
- Travel & lodging$5,84728%
- Food & beverage$7,77438%
- Education$5,50027%
- Gifts$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 45 | $9,207 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 37 | $3,558 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 26 | $2,694 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $1,823 |
| Abiomed | 18 | $1,224 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $787 |
| Gilead | 9 | $258 |
| Abbott | 2 | $240 |
| Stryker | 5 | $228 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $179 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 2 | $139 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $135 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 1 | $55 |
| BD | 1 | $52 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $47 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $22 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $15 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$5,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,954
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,926
- CoreValve Evolut$1,794
- FLOSEAL$1,710
- Impella$802
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$700
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$389
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$273
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$246
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$242
- CentriMag$221
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$164
- ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$149
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$141
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$125
- Epclusa$125
- TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$120
- XENOSURE BIOLOGIC PATCH$103
How this compares
Too few thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Mexicoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 19 | $127 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Albuquerque
- Fenton McCarthyAlbuquerque$41K
- Kevin RichardsonAlbuquerque$37K
- David JoyceAlbuquerque$19K
- Dana BoothAlbuquerque$13K
- Jennifer NishimuraAlbuquerque$9K
- William SteinAlbuquerque$4K
- Daniel Maoz-MetzlAlbuquerque$3K
- Brian CastlemainAlbuquerque$2K
- Jesus EnriquezAlbuquerque$487
- Leah McKinnonAlbuquerque$268
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.