Nader Moazami, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1356367676
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $20,863 of the $28,485 with a category attached, or 73.2%. Medtronic accounts for 73.7% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 59 payments — averaging $482.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$21K
- Octapharma USA, Inc.$4K
- Abbott$3K
- Xvivo Perfusion Inc.$369
- Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$280
- Abiomed$177
- plus $72 from 2 others
Across 69 payments — averaging $3445.88 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$99K
- Abbott$90K
- Xvivo Perfusion Inc.$50K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20,86373%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,00014%
- Travel & lodging$1,4425%
- Food & beverage$2,1568%
- Gifts$240%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 42 | $20,987 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $4,000 |
| Abbott | 7 | $2,600 |
| Xvivo Perfusion Inc. | 2 | $369 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $280 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $177 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 2 | $38 |
| One Lambda, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
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.
- HeartWare HVAD$12,307
- FIBRYGA & BALFAXAR$4,000
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$2,518
- XVIVO Perfusion System (XPS)$281
- SherpaPak$197
- LIVERguard$197
- LUNGguard$197
- BaroGuard$197
- PancreasPak$197
- Impella$149
How this compares
$28,485 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 128 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Minnesota.
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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 Minneapolis
- Vinayak BapatMinneapolis$792K
- Benjamin SunMinneapolis$443K
- Sarah PalmerMinneapolis$28K
- Matthew GraczykMinneapolis$28K
- Amit BhargavaMinneapolis$27K
- Eric AndersonMinneapolis$24K
- Aitua SalamiMinneapolis$14K
- Robert SteffenMinneapolis$9K
- Sebastian Iturra UrriolaMinneapolis$9K
- Erik BeckmannMinneapolis$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.