Marc Pelletier, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New Haven, CTNPI 1699883207
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (37.6%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 36 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 58.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $56,652 and has fallen 88.5% since, to $6,491 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in CT 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.
Across 475 payments — averaging $317.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$87K
- Edwards Lifesciences$25K
- Atricure, Inc.$19K
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Abbott$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- plus $7K from 30 others
Across 64 payments — averaging $8720.92 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.
- Atricure, Inc.$382K
- Abbott$117K
- Amgen$32K
- Artivion, Inc.$27K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$56,56038%
- Speaking & faculty fees$34,36023%
- Grants$1,2881%
- Travel & lodging$31,38021%
- Food & beverage$24,02916%
- Education$2,6502%
- Entertainment$330%
- Other$2820%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 213 | $87,319 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 73 | $24,611 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 42 | $19,207 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 18 | $5,544 |
| Abbott | 45 | $4,128 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $3,018 |
| Acutus Medical, Inc. | 1 | $1,422 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 5 | $766 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 6 | $630 |
| Saphena Medical, Inc. | 2 | $383 |
| Stryker | 5 | $364 |
| Nuwellis, Inc. | 2 | $326 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $298 |
| Enablecv Inc. | 3 | $274 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $274 |
| Corcym Inc | 7 | $223 |
| Quest Medical Inc. | 2 | $208 |
| Pulse Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $168 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $147 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $146 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 8 | $140 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $135 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $125 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $125 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $108 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $55 |
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $49 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Nexus Medical Technologies LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Argentum Medical | 2 | $33 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $19 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 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.
- Avalus$36,788
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$11,697
- Mosaic$11,306
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$10,856
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$9,371
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$8,088
- CoreValve Evolut$7,838
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$3,091
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$2,897
- VISTASEAL$2,748
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,668
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- Simulus$2,072
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,886
- Epic$1,213
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$1,154
- DISSECTOR$994
- Penditure$702
- PORTICO$548
- Octopus$515
How this compares
$150,582 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 70 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Connecticut.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Furosemide | 14 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in New Haven
- Justin BlasbergNew Haven$468K
- Colleen PietrasNew Haven$68K
- Prashanth VallabhajosyulaNew Haven$36K
- Daniel BoffaNew Haven$26K
- Roland AssiNew Haven$13K
- Thomas FabianNew Haven$11K
- Fabio RamponiNew Haven$7K
- Markus KraneNew Haven$6K
- Richard SalzanoNew Haven$6K
- Vincent MaseNew Haven$5K
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.