Has Mark Epler, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,773 in general payments to Mark Epler, MD across 48 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 Mark Epler, 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 Mark Epler, 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.

Mark Epler, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Lancaster, PANPI 1568678894

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,773in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $224.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$7K
Abbott$2K
Atricure, Inc.$1K
Abiomed$179
Bolton Medical Inc$153
Corcym Inc$147
plus $111 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,25021%
Travel & lodging$6,41360%
Food & beverage$2,11020%

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	20	$7,010
Abbott	10	$1,691
Atricure, Inc.	10	$1,482
Abiomed	2	$179
Bolton Medical Inc	1	$153
Corcym Inc	2	$147
Medtronic(2 entities)	3	$111

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.

TRICLIP$1,423
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,073
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$738
EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$598
DISSECTOR$588
TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$153
Impella$150
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$150
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$150
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$128
Perceval$108
SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$107

How this compares

$10,773 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$192,783

Medicare patients

141

Services billed

304

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 Lancaster

Jeremy McGarveyLancaster$297K
Joseph BavariaAllentown$6.6M
Mubashir MumtazHarrisburg$5M
Basel RamlawiWynnewood$4.4M
Ibrahim SultanPgh.$2.9M
Nimesh DesaiPhiladelphia$1.6M
Benny WekslerPittsburgh$1.5M
Stephen BaileyPittsburgh$1.3M
Scott GoldmanWynnewood$1.1M
Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$1.1M

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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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