Masahiro Ono
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Austin, TXNPI 1962807222
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $87,600 of the $118,928 with a category attached, or 73.7%. Abiomed accounts for 92.7% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $67,759 and has fallen 95.4% since, to $3,112 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 250 payments — averaging $475.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$110K
- Abbott$5K
- Medtronic$1K
- Transmedics, Inc.$892
- Bolton Medical Inc$457
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$180
- plus $829 from 14 others
Across 17 payments — averaging $1416.39 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Abbott$19K
- Medtronic$5K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$87,60074%
- Travel & lodging$18,29615%
- Food & beverage$13,03211%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 100 | $110,252 |
| Abbott | 80 | $5,016 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 29 | $1,302 |
| Transmedics, Inc. | 1 | $892 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 4 | $457 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 8 | $180 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $169 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $146 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 7 | $118 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 4 | $93 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $54 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Merck | 3 | $47 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $34 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $22 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 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.
- Impella$106,368
- CARDIOMEMS$1,407
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$894
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$892
- HeartWare HVAD$484
- Gelweave$190
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$168
- CardioMEMS HF System$146
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$146
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$130
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$129
- METACROSS OTW$122
- HeartMate Touch$113
- Avalus$113
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$105
How this compares
$118,928 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.
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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 Austin
- Faraz KerendiAustin$906K
- Brannon HydeAustin$214K
- Jonathan YangAustin$178K
- Eric HoenickeAustin$61K
- Jeffrey McNeilAustin$49K
- Brendan DewanAustin$46K
- Robert HebelerDallas$723K
- Michael ReardonHouston$713K
- Danny RamzyHouston$527K
- Scott OlssonCypress$357K
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.