Mark Russo
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New Brunswick, NJNPI 1326289786
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 987 payments — averaging $2459.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$2M
- Abbott$414K
- Boston Scientific$55K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$2K
- Abiomed$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$934
- plus $2K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$95,20543%
- Speaking & faculty fees$39,54818%
- Travel & lodging$50,75723%
- Food & beverage$33,24915%
- Education$510%
- Other$2820%
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 | 516 | $1,952,176 |
| Abbott | 346 | $413,684 |
| Boston Scientific | 31 | $54,507 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $2,000 |
| Abiomed | 43 | $1,801 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 31 | $934 |
| Opsens Inc. | 1 | $500 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $440 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $334 |
| Ancora Heart, Inc. | 1 | $206 |
| Jenavalve Technology, Inc. | 1 | $183 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $91 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $64 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $51 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $37 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$30,661
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$29,746
- MitraClip System$19,241
- Mitra Clip system$15,207
- NAVITOR$12,664
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$12,375
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$4,633
- PORTICO$4,505
- MitraClip$4,186
- Epic$3,968
- EVOQUE$2,228
- Artis Q.zen$2,000
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,507
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$1,397
- Tendyne Mitral Valve System$1,054
- Impella$611
- OptoWire$500
- OptoMonitor$500
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$402
- Edwards SAPIEN XT Transcatheter Heart Valve$370
How this compares
$2,427,076 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 New Brunswick
- George BatsidesNew Brunswick$71K
- Hirohisa IkegamiNew Brunswick$19K
- Manabu TakebeNew Brunswick$18K
- Ioannis KontopidisNew Brunswick$8K
- Benjamin MedinaNew Brunswick$7K
- John BrownMorristown$925K
- Atiq RehmanCherry Hill$503K
- Igor GosevNewark$241K
- Steve XydasMorristown$161K
- Leonard LeeHackensack$143K
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.