Mary Huerter, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Worcester, MANPI 1043502008
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 82 payments — averaging $116.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$776
- Abbott$197
- TEI Biosciences Inc$150
- plus $513 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,92831%
- Food & beverage$5,12554%
- Education$1,50016%
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. | 24 | $3,195 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 34 | $2,924 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 6 | $1,798 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 9 | $776 |
| Abbott | 2 | $197 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $147 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $136 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $97 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $85 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $32 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,693
- Tri-Ad$1,365
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,187
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$614
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$395
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$332
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$273
- ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$262
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$234
- ACC2 CARDIAC CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$226
- SURGIMEND$150
- VISTASEAL$147
- DERMABOND PRINEO$147
- STRATAFIX$147
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$146
- Impella$136
- EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$128
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$127
- CoreValve Evolut$121
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$113
How this compares
$9,553 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 171 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Massachusetts.
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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 Worcester
- Mark MaxfieldWorcester$21K
- Raphael BuenoBoston$1.4M
- David DalessandroBoston$1.1M
- Ciaran McNameeBoston$922K
- Elliot ServaisBurlington$703K
- Daniel EngelmanSpringfield$667K
- Scott SwansonBoston$461K
- Nathaniel LangerBoston$458K
- Daniel RaessBoxford$429K
- Akinobu ItohBoston$403K
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.