Mark Burlingame, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · York, PANPI 1801833868
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $5,220 of the $6,927 with a category attached, or 75.4%. Medtronic accounts for 77.3% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,949 and has fallen 85.6% since, to $424 in 2025.
Across 48 payments — averaging $144.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Edwards Lifesciences$651
- Atricure, Inc.$301
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$185
- Smith+Nephew$130
- Boston Scientific$115
- plus $191 from 8 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $602.10 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.
- Medtronic$6K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,22075%
- Food & beverage$1,70725%
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) | 9 | $5,355 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 10 | $651 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $301 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 6 | $185 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $130 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $115 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $41 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $23 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Novus Surgical Consultants | 1 | $17 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $10 |
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
$6,927 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 York
- Joseph BavariaAllentown$1.7M
- Basel RamlawiWynnewood$1.1M
- Patrick RossWynnewood$956K
- Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
- Scott GoldmanWynnewood$354K
- Frank BowenCamp Hill$310K
- Michael AckerPhiladelphia$271K
- Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$252K
- Inderpal SarkariaPittsburgh$248K
- Nimesh DesaiPhiladelphia$203K
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.