Michael Bibler, DO
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Amarillo, TXNPI 1831279132
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (52.4%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 70.1% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $8,360 and has fallen 93.2% since, to $568 in 2025.
Across 110 payments — averaging $158.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Medtronic$3K
- Abiomed$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$405
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$250
- Haemonetics Corporation$104
- plus $614 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,40325%
- Food & beverage$3,53220%
- Education$9,15752%
- Gifts$3902%
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 | 28 | $12,259 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 35 | $2,810 |
| Abiomed | 14 | $1,039 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $405 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $250 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $104 |
| Abbott | 1 | $103 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $100 |
| Stryker | 2 | $89 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $88 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $79 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$8,537
- ION$3,000
- Tri-Ad$1,027
- Impella$799
- CoreValve Evolut$790
- VISTASEAL$125
- DERMABOND$125
- TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$104
- AMPLATZER AMULET$103
How this compares
$17,482 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 30 | $351 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 11 | $86 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 18 | $63 |
| Potassium Chloride | 12 | $40 |
| Furosemide | 12 | $13 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Amarillo
- Faraz KerendiAustin$906K
- Robert HebelerDallas$723K
- Michael ReardonHouston$713K
- Danny RamzyHouston$527K
- Scott OlssonCypress$357K
- Randall WolfHouston$283K
- Gary JettPlano$277K
- Darien BradfordBurleson$266K
- William BrinkmanPlano$266K
- Brannon HydeAustin$214K
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.