Nestor Dans, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Huntington, WVNPI 1588652192
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,105 of the $6,670 with a category attached, or 76.5%. 29 manufacturers reported payments, led by Endologix LLC at 27.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,751 and has fallen 74.9% since, to $439 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in WV, where the typical reported total is $6,670.
Across 154 payments — averaging $43.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endologix LLC$2K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$514
- Biomerieux Inc$500
- Atricure, Inc.$499
- Boston Scientific$433
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5007%
- Travel & lodging$1,06516%
- Food & beverage$5,10577%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Endologix LLC | 18 | $1,860 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 5 | $1,252 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 19 | $514 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $500 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 14 | $499 |
| Boston Scientific | 22 | $433 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $233 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 12 | $205 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $182 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $144 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 5 | $143 |
| Corcym Inc | 4 | $118 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $109 |
| Abbott | 5 | $87 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $53 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 4 | $46 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $32 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $31 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $27 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $25 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $23 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $7 |
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
$6,670 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 30 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in West Virginia.
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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 Huntington
- Nepal ChowdhuryHuntington$15K
- Geoffrey CousinsHuntington$7K
- Rebecca WolferHuntington$19
- James RankinMorgantown$1.6M
- Vinay BadhwarMorgantown$56K
- Ghulam AbbasCharleston$50K
- Seyfi TokerMorgantown$32K
- Jeremiah HayangaMorgantown$27K
- Andres Jadue TobarCharleston$20K
- Robert HerronCharleston$11K
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.