Michael Ebright, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Stamford, CTNPI 1366571424
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (58.1%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 64.5% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $22,112 and has fallen 62.5% since, to $8,298 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in CT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 157 payments — averaging $427.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$43K
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- Covidien LP$7K
- On Target Laboratories, Inc$6K
- Lucid Diagnostics Inc.$439
- Ambu Inc.$262
- plus $283 from 4 others
Across 40 payments — averaging $2465.88 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$99K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,1139%
- Speaking & faculty fees$39,02858%
- Travel & lodging$9,86815%
- Food & beverage$4,6687%
- Education$7,50011%
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 | 84 | $43,331 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 31 | $9,741 |
| Covidien LP | 26 | $7,390 |
| On Target Laboratories, Inc | 5 | $5,730 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 5 | $439 |
| Ambu Inc. | 2 | $262 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $120 |
| Merck | 1 | $88 |
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $34 |
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.
- ILLUMISITE$19,275
- superDimension$8,776
- Da Vinci Surgical System$8,338
- Cytalux$5,730
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- LigaSure$330
- Signia$165
- Edge Navigation$127
- EleVision$126
- LINX Reflux Management System$120
How this compares
$67,176 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 70 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Connecticut.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Stamford
- Nicholas SheaStamford$4K
- William FengStamford$238
- Arshad QuadriW. Hartford$626K
- M Clive RobinsonBridgeport$496K
- Justin BlasbergNew Haven$468K
- Marc PelletierNew Haven$151K
- Colleen PietrasNew Haven$68K
- Prashanth VallabhajosyulaNew Haven$36K
- Dustin WaltersFarmington$36K
- Daniel BoffaNew Haven$26K
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.