Michele Gallo, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Louisville, KYNPI 1548991300
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 90 payments — averaging $48.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Medtronic$519
- Atricure, Inc.$389
- Teleflex LLC$226
- Boston Scientific$149
- Kls-martin L.p.$117
- plus $974 from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,01123%
- Food & beverage$3,33277%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 16 | $1,969 |
| Medtronic | 12 | $519 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 10 | $389 |
| Teleflex LLC | 5 | $226 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $149 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 3 | $117 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $89 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $70 |
| CSL Behring | 3 | $64 |
| Stryker | 1 | $58 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $48 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $46 |
| Novartis | 2 | $46 |
| Blue Surgical LLC | 2 | $42 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $35 |
| Corcym Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Monaghan Medical Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Amgen | 1 | $26 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Cerus Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $21 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $16 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $16 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $14 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 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.
How this compares
$4,343 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 98 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Kentucky.
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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 Louisville
- Mark SlaughterLouisville$407K
- Steven PetersonLouisville$283K
- Brian GanzelLouisville$71K
- Sebastian PagniLouisville$28K
- George MikosLouisville$19K
- Brian KogonLouisville$17K
- Steven EtochLouisville$17K
- Austen HuftonLouisville$16K
- David RosenbaumLouisville$14K
- Matthew FoxLouisville$12K
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.