Has Michael Friscia, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,408 in general payments to Michael Friscia, MD across 17 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 Michael Friscia, 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 Michael Friscia, 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.

Michael Friscia, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Danville, PANPI 1235281056

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,408in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $82.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$831
Artivion, Inc.$249
Abbott$202
LSI Solutions Inc$60
Medtronic$38
Johnson & Johnson$28

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,408100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Atricure, Inc.	10	$831
Artivion, Inc.	1	$249
Abbott	2	$202
LSI Solutions Inc	1	$60
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$38
Johnson & Johnson	1	$28

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

$1,408 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$131,849

Medicare patients

147

Services billed

283

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 Danville

Carlo BartoliDanville$67K
Joseph BavariaAllentown$6.6M
Mubashir MumtazHarrisburg$5M
Basel RamlawiWynnewood$4.4M
Ibrahim SultanPgh.$2.9M
Nimesh DesaiPhiladelphia$1.6M
Benny WekslerPittsburgh$1.5M
Stephen BaileyPittsburgh$1.3M
Scott GoldmanWynnewood$1.1M
Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$1.1M

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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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