Moritz Wyler von Ballmoos, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Houston, TXNPI 1487970463
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $61,751 of the $91,266 with a category attached, or 67.7%. Boston Scientific accounts for 62.5% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $23,477 and has fallen 87.5% since, to $2,943 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 191 payments — averaging $477.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$57K
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- Medtronic$7K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Baxter Healthcare$3K
- Abbott$3K
- plus $6K from 17 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $12,807 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$13K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$61,75168%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,6505%
- Grants$1400%
- Travel & lodging$3,6394%
- Food & beverage$12,08613%
- Education$9,00010%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 16 | $57,066 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $9,817 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 52 | $7,235 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 32 | $4,445 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $3,491 |
| Abbott | 41 | $3,051 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 12 | $2,829 |
| Jenavalve Technology, Inc. | 3 | $580 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $482 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $427 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $407 |
| Corcym Inc | 2 | $387 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $178 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $149 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $148 |
| Pylant Medical | 3 | $144 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $118 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $96 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $83 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $55 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $45 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Acell, 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.
- CLINICAL TRIAL PRODUCT$35,600
- Da Vinci Surgical System$9,778
- CoreValve Evolut$5,065
- No Related Product$3,325
- Perceval$3,055
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$1,115
- Mitra Clip system$837
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$540
- JenaValve Pericardial TAVR System$537
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$436
- COR KNOT$427
- On-X$397
- TMR$397
- MitraClip System$371
- TRICLIP$304
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$295
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$284
- Avalus$273
- Epic$256
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$178
How this compares
$91,266 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 Houston
- Michael ReardonHouston$713K
- Danny RamzyHouston$527K
- Randall WolfHouston$283K
- Min KimHouston$185K
- Marc MoonHouston$142K
- Ismael Salas de ArmasHouston$121K
- Shawn GrothHouston$110K
- Mahesh RamchandaniHouston$110K
- Gabriel LoorHouston$106K
- Mara AntonoffHouston$104K
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.