Has Marc Silver, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $165,954 in general payments to Marc Silver, MD across 36 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 Marc Silver, 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 Marc Silver, 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.

Marc Silver, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Pontiac, MINPI 1285746610

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by other: $164,668 of the $165,954 with a category attached, or 99.2%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 94.2% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $142,763 and has fallen 90.2% since, to $14,020 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in MI 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.

$165,954in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $4609.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$156K
Kls-martin L.p.$8K
Abbott$554
Medtronic$222
Atricure, Inc.$204
Stryker$135
plus $158 from 6 others

$3,400in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $566.67 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.$3K

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,2861%
Other$164,66899%

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	4	$156,307
Kls-martin L.p.	10	$8,374
Abbott	7	$554
Medtronic	5	$222
Atricure, Inc.	2	$204
Stryker	1	$135
Baxter Healthcare	2	$46
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	1	$26
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	1	$22
EMD Serono, Inc.	1	$22
Pinnacle, Inc	1	$22
Lundbeck 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.

LEVEL ONE, HANDLE, SCREWDRIVER, BATTERY OPERATED, W/OUT BATTERY PACK, INCREASED $2,948
LEVEL ONE THORACIC, PLATE, STERNAL, LOCKING, ANGLE, 2.3 MM SCREW, 4 HOLE, T=1.8 $1,183
LEVEL ONE THORACIC, PLATE, STERNAL, LOCKING, BODY, 2.3 MM SCREW, 14 HOLE, T=1.8 $1,018
LEVEL ONE, PLIERS, BENDING, PLATE, LOCKING, 2.0/2.5 MM, LEFT, 15 CM, QTY: 001 EA$887
LEVEL ONE, HANDLE, SCREWDRIVER, 1.5/2.0/2.3/2.7 MM, ROTATE, ROUND, QTY: 001 EA$790
LEVEL ONE THORACIC, SCREW, STERNAL, MAXDRIVE, LOCKING, DRILL FREE, 2.3 X 11 MM, $689
BATTERY PACK FOR KLS-SD-1000,STERILE, SINGLE USE ONLY LITHIUM,QTY:001 EA$358
CARDIOMEMS$306
LEVEL ONE, MOD LOCK, FOR 3 STACK, RIGHT, QTY: 001 EA$216
LEVEL ONE, MOD LOCK, FOR 3 STACK, LEFT, QTY: 001 EA$216
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$172
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$137
MAKO$135

How this compares

$165,954 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$93,931

Medicare patients

115

Services billed

287

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 Pontiac

Steven BollingAnn Arbor$41.7M
Raed AlnajjarDetroit$781K
Gorav AilawadiAnn Arbor$434K
Reza DabirDearborn$342K
Shinichi FukuharaAnn Arbor$236K
John ParisGrand Rapids$226K
Zane HammoudDetroit$208K
Bo YangAnn Arbor$180K
Matthew RomanoAnn Arbor$177K
Chigozirim EkekeAnn Arbor$92K

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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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