Matthew Black
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1891010567
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (40.8%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 69.6% of it on its own, with 30 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,669, 2.0 times the $3,295 reported in 2019.
Across 85 payments — averaging $141.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Transmedics, Inc.$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$267
- AstraZeneca$115
- Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$85
- plus $747 from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,90741%
- Food & beverage$2,96525%
- Education$4,15035%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 22 | $8,367 |
| Transmedics, Inc. | 2 | $1,400 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 15 | $1,041 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $267 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $115 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $85 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $78 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $78 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $62 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 2 | $51 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 2 | $42 |
| Merck | 2 | $37 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $21 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| G1 Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Novartis | 1 | $17 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $15 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $14 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $13 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$12,022 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 Pittsburgh
- Inderpal SarkariaPittsburgh$248K
- Benny WekslerPittsburgh$161K
- Nicholas BakerPittsburgh$138K
- Walter McGregorPittsburgh$124K
- Rajeev DhuparPittsburgh$65K
- Robert KormosPittsburgh$53K
- David KaczorowskiPittsburgh$47K
- Hiroyuki TsukuiPittsburgh$45K
- Hiran FernandoPittsburgh$34K
- Stephen BaileyPittsburgh$33K
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.