Meghana Helder, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · St Louis Park, MNNPI 1902117054
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $9,076 of the $14,887 with a category attached, or 61.0%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 40.2% of the total.
Across 95 payments — averaging $156.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$6K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- Foundation Medical, LLC$972
- Arthrex$682
- plus $1K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,30015%
- Travel & lodging$9,07661%
- Food & beverage$3,51124%
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 | 28 | $5,987 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 15 | $2,732 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 16 | $2,274 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $1,045 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 7 | $972 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $682 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $496 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 6 | $404 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 4 | $237 |
| Abbott | 1 | $25 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| BD | 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.
- Meridian$2,464
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,735
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,038
- Impella$969
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$760
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$606
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$402
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$237
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$129
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$120
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$113
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$113
How this compares
$14,887 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 128 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Minnesota.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 23 | $179 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 21 | $108 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in St Louis Park
- Ramoncito DavidSt Louis Park$3K
- Vinayak BapatMinneapolis$792K
- Benjamin SunMinneapolis$443K
- Malakh ShresthaRochester$89K
- Juan CrestanelloRochester$56K
- Janani ReisenauerRochester$46K
- Louis JacquesEdina$36K
- Nader MoazamiMinneapolis$28K
- Sarah PalmerMinneapolis$28K
- Matthew GraczykMinneapolis$28K
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.