Has Mini Sivadasan, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,713 in general payments to Mini Sivadasan, MD across 224 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 Mini Sivadasan, 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 Mini Sivadasan, 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.

Mini Sivadasan, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Dallas, TXNPI 1336330570

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.5%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 46 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.9%.

$17,713in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 224 payments — averaging $79.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$4K
Intuitive Surgical$3K
Edwards Lifesciences$3K
Abbott$2K
Abiomed$1K
Getinge USA Sales, LLC$539
plus $4K from 40 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$6954%
Travel & lodging$7,19441%
Food & beverage$9,82455%

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
Atricure, Inc.	29	$4,057
Intuitive Surgical	10	$2,846
Edwards Lifesciences	22	$2,557
Abbott	20	$2,292
Abiomed	15	$1,030
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	9	$539
Boston Scientific	11	$525
Endologix LLC	5	$488
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	29	$475
Artivion, Inc.	5	$344
BD	3	$283
Davol Inc.	2	$262
Baxter Healthcare	4	$228
Medinc Of Texas	3	$187
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	8	$181
Heartflow, Inc.	1	$174
Medtronic(2 entities)	4	$134
Zimmer Biomet	2	$102
Mindray DS USA, Inc.	2	$94
Kls-martin L.p.	5	$94
Pylant Medical	2	$67
Dexcom, Inc.	4	$62
On Target Laboratories, Inc	3	$58
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	2	$56
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc	1	$47
Solventum Corporation	2	$42
Smith+Nephew	2	$42
Potrero Medical, Inc.	1	$38
Surmodics, Inc.	1	$34
Octapharma USA, Inc.	1	$31
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$29
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$28
Pfizer	1	$28
LSI Solutions Inc	1	$26
Kerecis Limited	1	$24
Enablecv Inc.	1	$22
Cvrx, Inc.	1	$21
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$21
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	1	$20
Teleflex LLC	1	$20
Covidien LP	1	$19
Philips North America LLC	1	$18
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$18
Stryker	1	$17
Acacia Pharma Inc	1	$17
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	1	$16

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

$17,713 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$57,697

Medicare patients

Services billed

101

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.

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Jaye WestonDallas$70K
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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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