Michael Kayatta, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Clearwater, FLNPI 1972893220
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 274 payments — averaging $220.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$45K
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Atricure, Inc.$4K
- Baxter Healthcare$3K
- Abiomed$1K
- Medtronic$832
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,0485%
- Travel & lodging$15,79926%
- Food & beverage$9,04015%
- Education$32,52054%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 99 | $44,550 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 53 | $4,850 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 47 | $4,377 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $3,241 |
| Abiomed | 17 | $1,154 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 27 | $832 |
| Abbott | 3 | $347 |
| Jenavalve Technology, Inc. | 1 | $191 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $125 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $118 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $107 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 2 | $59 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $44 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $41 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $35 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Stryker | 1 | $33 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Vital Connect, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $22 |
| Merck | 1 | $21 |
| On Target Laboratories, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $14 |
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$36,398
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$3,048
- DAVINCI XI$3,000
- ION$3,000
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$1,389
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,300
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$1,099
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,024
- Impella$637
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$407
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$302
- JenaValve Pericardial TAVR System$191
- Mitra Clip system$160
- Avalus$156
- MitraClip System$134
- OPDIVO$125
- CoreValve Evolut$123
- FARXIGA$118
- Octopus$110
How this compares
$60,420 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Warfarin Sodium | 36 | $400 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 13 | $38 |
| JantovenWarfarin Sodium | 11 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Clearwater
- Joshua RovinClearwater$1.7M
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Thomas BeaverGainesville$1.9M
- Brian BetheaDelray Beach$1.8M
- Kevin AccolaOrlando$1.7M
- Andrew ShermanTampa$1.6M
- Abelardo VargasSunny Isles Beach$1.1M
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$991K
- Bradley TaylorBoca Raton$904K
- Marcos NoresAtlantis$836K
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.