Mark Tawil, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · North Canton, OHNPI 1285620179
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,149 of the $4,044 with a category attached, or 77.9%. It is spread thinly across 43 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,286 and has fallen 55.9% since, to $567 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $4,867.
Across 162 payments — averaging $24.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$822
- Medtronic$598
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$385
- Pfizer$227
- Boehringer Ingelheim$184
- Amgen$152
- plus $2K from 37 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$70%
- Travel & lodging$88922%
- Food & beverage$3,14978%
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.
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
$4,044 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 59 | $496 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 25 | $131 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 30 | $128 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 13 | $91 |
| Carvedilol | 22 | $77 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 11 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in North Canton
- Alejandro BribriescoCleveland$968K
- Daniel WatsonColumbus$946K
- Alan Marc GillinovCleveland$926K
- Edward SolteszCleveland$835K
- Eric OkumColumbus$637K
- Michael MorontToledo$543K
- Desmond DsouzaColumbus$487K
- Salil DeoCleveland$419K
- Tomislav MihaljevicCleveland$387K
- Christopher ToweCleveland$370K
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.