Mickyas Eskender, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1578918652
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 209 payments — averaging $97.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Abiomed$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- plus $3K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$10,24650%
- Food & beverage$10,11850%
- Education$20%
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 | 50 | $4,973 |
| Abiomed | 28 | $2,939 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 27 | $2,646 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 16 | $2,396 |
| Abbott | 16 | $2,370 |
| Medtronic | 43 | $2,349 |
| BD | 7 | $1,374 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 5 | $348 |
| Helios Cardio Inc | 1 | $210 |
| Stryker | 1 | $152 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $136 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 1 | $111 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 2 | $98 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $77 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $48 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $37 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $24 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $17 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,931
- CARDIOMEMS$1,553
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,535
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,234
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,053
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$512
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$469
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$353
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$320
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$282
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$241
- CARDIAMEND$210
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$193
- KONECT RESILIA$170
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$158
- UNIVERSAL NEURO 2$152
- STRYKER VARISPEED$152
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$146
- PREVENA$136
- Mosaic$102
How this compares
$20,366 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Fort Myers
- Brian HummelFort Myers$656K
- Daniel O'HairFort Myers$429K
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Thomas BeaverGainesville$1.9M
- Brian BetheaDelray Beach$1.8M
- Joshua RovinClearwater$1.7M
- Kevin AccolaOrlando$1.7M
- Andrew ShermanTampa$1.6M
- Abelardo VargasSunny Isles Beach$1.1M
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$991K
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.