Mark Connolly, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Paterson, NJNPI 1326010612
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $31,250 of the $48,139 with a category attached, or 64.9%. Abbott accounts for 66.0% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 145 payments — averaging $331.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$32K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$5K
- Atricure, Inc.$5K
- Medtronic$4K
- Abiomed$901
- Zimmer Biomet$277
- plus $763 from 11 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $2230.00 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.
- Livanova USA, Inc.$27K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$31,25065%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,37511%
- Travel & lodging$4,2129%
- Food & beverage$7,30115%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 29 | $31,791 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 5 | $5,466 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 39 | $5,323 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 39 | $3,617 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $901 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $277 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 6 | $167 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $125 |
| EDAP Technomed Inc | 1 | $78 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $77 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $66 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $47 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $21 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- XIENCE V$20,250
- XIENCE SKYPOINT$7,500
- Perceval$5,466
- Xience cornary stent systems$2,000
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,800
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,493
- Mitra Clip system$1,000
- CoreValve Evolut$949
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$884
- Impella$823
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$362
- Mosaic$305
- CentriMag$221
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$195
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$165
- Avalus$155
- Valiant Captivia$149
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$148
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$141
- Penditure$126
How this compares
$48,139 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 129 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Jersey.
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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 Paterson
- Atiq RehmanCherry Hill$503K
- Mark RussoNew Brunswick$219K
- Leonard LeeHackensack$143K
- Adam ArnofskyEnglewood$132K
- Igor GosevNewark$118K
- Kourosh AsgarianNeptune$93K
- James McPhersonPennington$93K
- Katherine WoodNewark$83K
- George BatsidesNew Brunswick$71K
- Yuji KakuCamden$57K
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.