Muhammad Masood, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Saint Louis, MONPI 1306166327
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (51.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Abbott accounts for 69.2% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $12,200 and has fallen 96.5% since, to $433 in 2025.
Across 74 payments — averaging $313.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$16K
- Medtronic$4K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$1K
- Abiomed$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$446
- Bolton Medical Inc$280
- plus $191 from 2 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $20,944 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.
- Baxter Healthcare$189K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$11,96152%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,9508%
- Travel & lodging$5,82725%
- Food & beverage$3,46015%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 42 | $16,063 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $3,928 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 5 | $1,288 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $1,002 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 5 | $446 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $280 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $67 |
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.
- CentriMag$9,153
- CardioMEMS HF System$3,600
- HeartWare HVAD$3,462
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$2,250
- MICS Cannulae$1,184
- Perceval$1,184
- Impella$815
- HeartMate$433
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$148
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$148
- Cardioblate$139
- Avalus$138
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$137
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$134
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$132
- ACC2 CARDIAC CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$124
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$124
How this compares
$23,198 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 113 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Missouri.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 22 | $169 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 16 | $66 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Saint Louis
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- Puja KachrooSaint Louis$57K
- Umraan AhmadSaint Louis$51K
- Nabil MunfakhSaint Louis$44K
- Shuddhadeb RaySaint Louis$38K
- Joshua BakerSaint Louis$36K
- Alexander BresciaSaint Louis$35K
- Kunal Deepak KotkarSaint Louis$33K
- George PattersonSaint Louis$23K
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.