RxDoctor Payments Data

Marcus Eby

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · West Palm Beach, FLNPI 1669899845

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (58.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 82.0% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $5,779 and has fallen 88.7% since, to $654 in 2025.

$12,829in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 62 payments — averaging $206.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$11K
  • Elucent Medical$500
  • Boston Scientific$467
  • Abbott$224
  • AstraZeneca$178
  • Asensus Surgical, Inc.$127
  • plus $811 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$5004%
  • Travel & lodging$2,28718%
  • Food & beverage$2,54120%
  • Education$7,50058%

General payments by program year

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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.

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.

How this compares

$12,829 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$131,811
Medicare patients
270
Services billed
819

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.

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