RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Eng, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Munster, INNPI 1801907878

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $14,117 of the $21,001 with a category attached, or 67.2%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 36.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,716 and has fallen 65.8% since, to $2,641 in 2025.

$21,001in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 196 payments — averaging $107.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Edwards Lifesciences$8K
  • Abbott$4K
  • Medtronic$3K
  • Artivion, Inc.$3K
  • Atricure, Inc.$2K
  • Bolton Medical Inc$770
  • plus $1K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$14,11767%
  • Food & beverage$6,82332%
  • Entertainment$610%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$21,001 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 127 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$106,390
Medicare patients
133
Services billed
195

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.

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