Matthew Romano, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Ann Arbor, MINPI 1346350402
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 581 payments — averaging $3776.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$919K
- Edwards Lifesciences$582K
- Atricure, Inc.$425K
- Abbott$173K
- Medtronic$50K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$38K
- plus $7K from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$124,05070%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,7005%
- Grants$1,5141%
- Travel & lodging$30,83917%
- Food & beverage$7,4484%
- Education$4,6113%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 81 | $919,292 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 217 | $582,304 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 157 | $425,002 |
| Abbott | 62 | $173,268 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 48 | $49,608 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $38,000 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $5,149 |
| Stryker | 3 | $1,200 |
| Pulse Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $168 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $91 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $67 |
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.
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$9,340
- BOTOX$6,738
- Mosaic$5,100
- CG Future$5,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,948
- Simulus$3,327
- Mitra Clip system$1,673
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,413
- Tri-Ad$1,334
- SONOPET IQ$1,200
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,115
- CoreValve Evolut$620
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$364
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$330
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$307
- Tricuspid Valve Repair System$281
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$187
- ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$168
- CellFX$168
- MitraClip$139
How this compares
$2,194,148 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Warfarin Sodium | 13 | $374 |
| Amoxicillin | 20 | $15 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Ann Arbor
- Steven BollingAnn Arbor$42.4M
- Gorav AilawadiAnn Arbor$1.4M
- Himanshu PatelAnn Arbor$1.1M
- George DeebAnn Arbor$926K
- Shinichi FukuharaAnn Arbor$881K
- Jules LinAnn Arbor$474K
- Francis PaganiAnn Arbor$287K
- Robert HawkinsAnn Arbor$231K
- Bo YangAnn Arbor$180K
- Rishindra ReddyAnn Arbor$119K
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.