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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $101,585 in general payments to Michael Halkos, MD across 174 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 Halkos, 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 Halkos, 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 Halkos, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Atlanta, GANPI 1801071501

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (50.5%), education and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 78.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in GA 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.

$101,585in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 174 payments — averaging $583.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$80K
Intuitive Surgical$19K
Edwards Lifesciences$1K
Abbott$815
Artivion, Inc.$402
Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical)$184
plus $306 from 4 others

$143,049in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $11,004 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.

AbbVie$135K
Edwards Lifesciences$8K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$13,47513%
Speaking & faculty fees$51,27550%
Travel & lodging$12,00112%
Food & beverage$8,5358%
Education$16,30016%

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)	124	$80,128
Intuitive Surgical	18	$18,529
Edwards Lifesciences	10	$1,222
Abbott	7	$815
Artivion, Inc.	6	$402
Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical)	1	$184
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	1	$118
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$95
Atricure, Inc.	4	$80
Baxter Healthcare	1	$12

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.

CG Future$24,292
Da Vinci Surgical System$17,635
Simulus$14,992
Avalus$13,493
Mosaic$12,565
Octopus$5,400
Hancock$1,540
Tri-Ad$1,290
DA VINCI SP$500
Mitra Clip system$340
ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$249
AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$249
BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$249
CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$249
MitraClip System$206
MitraClip$175
Heli-FX EndoAnchor System$159
3F$125
Acrobat$118

How this compares

$101,585 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 144 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$168,354

Medicare patients

112

Services billed

214

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
Atorvastatin Calcium	11	$185
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	15	$185

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Atlanta

Manu SanchetiAtlanta$805K
John PuskasAtlanta$332K
Douglas MurphyAtlanta$254K
Ezequiel MolinaAtlanta$215K
Gaetano PaoneAtlanta$134K
Allan PickensAtlanta$87K
Bradley LeshnowerAtlanta$63K
Kimberly HolstAtlanta$52K
William KeelingAtlanta$49K
Mark HelmersAtlanta$32K

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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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