Has Melissa Levack, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $41,533 in general payments to Melissa Levack, MD across 154 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 Melissa Levack, 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 Melissa Levack, 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.

Melissa Levack, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Columbus, GANPI 1629273214

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (38.8%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 54.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,857 and has fallen 71.8% since, to $2,500 in 2025.

$41,533in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 154 payments — averaging $269.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$23K
Edwards Lifesciences$9K
Boston Scientific$4K
Atricure, Inc.$2K
Abbott$625
Arthrex$482
plus $2K from 17 others

$92,312in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $3296.85 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.

Medtronic$92K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$16,10039%
Speaking & faculty fees$12,59430%
Travel & lodging$4,48111%
Food & beverage$8,33020%
Education$290%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	52	$22,602
Edwards Lifesciences	35	$9,495
Boston Scientific	11	$3,886
Atricure, Inc.	17	$2,283
Abbott	8	$625
Arthrex	3	$482
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC	1	$481
Baxter Healthcare	5	$350
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	3	$215
Bolton Medical Inc	2	$191
Heartflow, Inc.	1	$144
Zimmer Biomet	1	$130
Biostable Science & Engineering	1	$123
Abiomed	1	$114
Angiodynamics, Inc.	2	$100
Stryker	2	$77
Innovation Technologies Inc	2	$50
Pfizer	2	$45
Cerus Corporation	1	$39
BD	1	$36
Philips North America LLC	1	$24
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	1	$22
Artivion, Inc.	1	$19

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

$41,533 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 144 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$138,227

Medicare patients

123

Services billed

256

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 Columbus

Jeffery JohnsonColumbus$15K
Jeremy LondonSavannah$1.6M
Vinod ThouraniMarietta$1.2M
Manu SanchetiAtlanta$805K
John PuskasAtlanta$332K
Douglas MurphyAtlanta$254K
Daniel MillerMarietta$237K
Ezequiel MolinaAtlanta$215K
Gaetano PaoneAtlanta$134K
Michael HalkosAtlanta$102K

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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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