Mark Suzuki, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Savannah, GANPI 1851373351
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $10,187 of the $14,464 with a category attached, or 70.4%. 36 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 35.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,641 and has fallen 62.8% since, to $1,356 in 2025.
Across 250 payments — averaging $57.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$5K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Abbott$1K
- Medtronic$927
- Abiomed$905
- Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation$579
- plus $2K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,27630%
- Food & beverage$10,18770%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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. | 58 | $5,131 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 63 | $3,678 |
| Abbott | 35 | $1,108 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 18 | $927 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $905 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 8 | $579 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 3 | $286 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 5 | $232 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $165 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $153 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $137 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $126 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $99 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $91 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $86 |
| Outset Medical Inc | 1 | $70 |
| Stryker | 2 | $68 |
| Convatec Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $55 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $54 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $42 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $31 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $30 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $26 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $17 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $12 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $12 |
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.
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$2,697
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,091
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$963
- Impella$796
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$581
- Sarns$435
- Octopus$172
- Avalus$161
- Perceval$161
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$159
- Harvest$149
- STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$148
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX, MODELS$142
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$142
- Progel Applicator Spray Tips$131
- MitraClip System$129
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$128
- MitraClip$110
- C.A.T.S.$107
- Mitra Clip system$107
How this compares
$14,464 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 144 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Georgia.
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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 Savannah
- Jeremy LondonSavannah$1.6M
- Roberto RodriguezSavannah$73K
- Brian BaileySavannah$69K
- Glenn CarlosSavannah$24K
- Vinod ThouraniMarietta$1.2M
- Manu SanchetiAtlanta$805K
- John PuskasAtlanta$332K
- Douglas MurphyAtlanta$254K
- Daniel MillerMarietta$237K
- Ezequiel MolinaAtlanta$215K
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.