Muhammad Anwer, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New Haven, CTNPI 1679941462
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,399 of the $1,732 with a category attached, or 80.8%. Transmedics, Inc. accounts for 68.8% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,231 and has fallen 83.9% since, to $198 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in CT, where the typical reported total is $4,217.
Across 10 payments — averaging $173.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Transmedics, Inc.$1K
- Abiomed$264
- Abbott$118
- Artivion, Inc.$112
- Johnson & Johnson$46
Across 13 payments — averaging $4832.41 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.
- Transmedics, Inc.$63K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,39981%
- Food & beverage$33319%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Transmedics, Inc. | 1 | $1,192 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $264 |
| Abbott | 4 | $118 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $46 |
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
$1,732 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 70 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Connecticut.
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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 New Haven
- Justin BlasbergNew Haven$468K
- Marc PelletierNew Haven$151K
- Colleen PietrasNew Haven$68K
- Prashanth VallabhajosyulaNew Haven$36K
- Daniel BoffaNew Haven$26K
- Roland AssiNew Haven$13K
- Thomas FabianNew Haven$11K
- Fabio RamponiNew Haven$7K
- Markus KraneNew Haven$6K
- Richard SalzanoNew Haven$6K
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.