Manuel Villa Sanchez
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Staten Island, NYNPI 1891942454
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.3%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Covidien LP accounts for 60.2% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,130 and has fallen 98.2% since, to $131 in 2025.
Across 50 payments — averaging $369.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Covidien LP$11K
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Steris Corporation$809
- Zimmer Biomet$759
- Abbott$131
- Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.$29
- plus $19 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,00043%
- Travel & lodging$6,49235%
- Food & beverage$9435%
- Education$3,02516%
- Gifts$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Covidien LP | 7 | $11,130 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 27 | $5,596 |
| Steris Corporation | 2 | $809 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 10 | $759 |
| Abbott | 1 | $131 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $19 |
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.
- ION$3,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,191
- TRUFREEZE$809
- AVEIR$131
How this compares
$18,473 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
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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 Staten Island
- Vijay SinghStaten Island$147K
- Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
- Gilbert TangNew York$842K
- Michael ZervosNew York$811K
- Israel JacobowitzBrooklyn$529K
- Elias ZiasNew York$465K
- Arthur MartellaRochester$431K
- Isaac GeorgeNew York$395K
- Eugene GrossiNew York$350K
- John GoncalvesMineola$332K
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.