Mikko Tauriainen, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Plano, TXNPI 1174529325
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 54 payments — averaging $264.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Atricure, Inc.$499
- Abbott$362
- Johnson & Johnson$311
- Medtronic$147
- Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.$109
- plus $395 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,27316%
- Education$12,00084%
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 | 8 | $12,450 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 13 | $499 |
| Abbott | 4 | $362 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 8 | $311 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $147 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $107 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 4 | $42 |
| Stryker | 1 | $31 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $30 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $30 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $24 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $15 |
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
$14,273 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.
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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 Plano
- Robert SmithPlano$2.9M
- William RyanPlano$2.1M
- William BrinkmanPlano$1.2M
- Michael MackPlano$796K
- Katherine HarringtonPlano$723K
- Gary JettPlano$277K
- Kelley HutchesonPlano$223K
- Timothy GeorgePlano$154K
- John DimaioPlano$128K
- Gregory MessnerPlano$112K
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.