Has Mario Gasparri, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $516,110 in general payments to Mario Gasparri, MD across 460 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 Mario Gasparri, 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 Mario Gasparri, 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.

Mario Gasparri, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Milwaukee, WINPI 1114971439

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $352,169 of the $516,110 with a category attached, or 68.2%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 68.8% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in WI 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.

$516,110in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 460 payments — averaging $1121.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$355K
Intuitive Surgical$91K
Synthes GmbH$35K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$34K
Zimmer Biomet$456
On Target Laboratories, Inc$227
plus $436 from 6 others

$35,000in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $11,667 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.$35K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$352,16968%
Speaking & faculty fees$25,5215%
Travel & lodging$51,79810%
Food & beverage$16,1223%
Education$70,50014%

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
Atricure, Inc.	278	$355,123
Intuitive Surgical	96	$91,025
Synthes GmbH	53	$34,946
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	21	$33,896
Zimmer Biomet	4	$456
On Target Laboratories, Inc	2	$227
Enduromed, LLC	1	$109
Synthes USA Products LLC	1	$100
Elutia, Inc.	1	$79
Baxter Healthcare	1	$78
Hemosonics LLC	1	$50
Johnson & Johnson	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.

ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$231,662
Da Vinci Surgical System$90,102
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$45,920
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$33,252
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$24,818
MATRIXRIB$24,749
ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$22,119
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$13,359
MATRIXMIDFACE$7,903
ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$413
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$265
AdvantageRib$257
Cytalux$227
RibFix Blu$122
ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$107
ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$106

How this compares

$516,110 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 97 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$66,920

Medicare patients

Services billed

151

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 Milwaukee

David DemosMilwaukee$446K
William TisolMilwaukee$339K
Paul SeifertMilwaukee$31K
Lucian DurhamMilwaukee$30K
Goya RaikarMilwaukee$17K
John CrouchMilwaukee$15K
Andrew LinMilwaukee$14K
Lyle JoyceMilwaukee$14K
Austin RogersMilwaukee$13K
Mallory HuntMilwaukee$13K

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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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