Neil Galindez, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Palm Beach Gardens, FLNPI 1922238799
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $12,124 of the $16,606 with a category attached, or 73.0%. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 26.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,495 and has fallen 76.0% since, to $840 in 2025.
Across 145 payments — averaging $114.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$4K
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Abiomed$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Abbott$903
- Livanova USA, Inc.$640
- plus $3K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,0006%
- Travel & lodging$1,98212%
- Food & beverage$12,12473%
- Education$1,5009%
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. | 42 | $4,392 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 18 | $3,008 |
| Abiomed | 20 | $2,778 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 17 | $1,724 |
| Abbott | 7 | $903 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 5 | $640 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $474 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $463 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 4 | $454 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 5 | $374 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 2 | $359 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $271 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $183 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $128 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $107 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $91 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $76 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $67 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $46 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $25 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,472
- Impella$2,323
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,000
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$884
- STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$875
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$831
- Essenz$419
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$398
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$363
- ECM Patch,Pouch$359
- Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve$295
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$269
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$264
- SternaLock 360$252
- Epic$200
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$188
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$188
- AngioVac$183
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$177
- Valiant Captivia$165
How this compares
$16,606 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.
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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 Palm Beach Gardens
- Nishant PatelPalm Beach Gardens$123K
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Barry WintonLargo$687K
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$666K
- John PirrisJacksonville$640K
- Jacques FontaineTampa$630K
- Andrew ShermanTampa$517K
- Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$515K
- Daniel O'HairFort Myers$429K
- Luis HerreraOrlando$409K
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.