Has Matthew Romano, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $177,162 in general payments to Matthew Romano, MD across 281 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Matthew Romano, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Matthew Romano, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Matthew Romano, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Ann Arbor, MINPI 1346350402

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $124,050 of the $177,162 with a category attached, or 70.0%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 60.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$177,162in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 281 payments — averaging $630.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$108K
Medtronic$21K
Atricure, Inc.$20K
AbbVie$18K
Intuitive Surgical$5K
Abbott$3K
plus $2K from 4 others

$2,016,987in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 300 payments — averaging $6723.29 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.

AbbVie$901K
Edwards Lifesciences$474K
Atricure, Inc.$405K
Abbott$170K
Livanova USA, Inc.$38K
Medtronic$28K

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
Edwards Lifesciences	145	$107,897
Medtronic(2 entities)	45	$21,410
Atricure, Inc.	36	$20,422
AbbVie(2 entities)	14	$17,892
Intuitive Surgical	7	$5,149
Abbott	27	$2,865
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

$177,162 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

Part B allowed, 2024

$185,661

Medicare patients

113

Services billed

246

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$41.7M
Gorav AilawadiAnn Arbor$434K
Shinichi FukuharaAnn Arbor$236K
Bo YangAnn Arbor$180K
Chigozirim EkekeAnn Arbor$92K
Himanshu PatelAnn Arbor$58K
Rishindra ReddyAnn Arbor$58K
Barbara HamiltonAnn Arbor$34K
Kenneth HasslerAnn Arbor$31K
Tessa WattAnn Arbor$22K

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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.

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