Nimesh Desai, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Philadelphia, PANPI 1457517716
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (44.0%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. at 36.9% of the total. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in PA 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 360 payments — averaging $563.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$75K
- Medtronic$46K
- Edwards Lifesciences$24K
- Baxter Healthcare$19K
- Bolton Medical Inc$18K
- Artivion, Inc.$15K
- plus $5K from 10 others
Across 181 payments — averaging $7605.79 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.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$553K
- Bolton Medical Inc$419K
- Edwards Lifesciences$304K
- Medtronic$78K
- Abbott$17K
- Artivion, Inc.$4K
- plus $2K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$70,48135%
- Speaking & faculty fees$89,29144%
- Travel & lodging$23,41112%
- Food & beverage$19,56110%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 92 | $74,834 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 65 | $46,295 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 75 | $23,537 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 8 | $19,128 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 39 | $18,061 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 37 | $15,409 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 19 | $2,054 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $1,587 |
| Abbott | 8 | $673 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $319 |
| Biostable Science & Engineering | 1 | $214 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $161 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $127 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $89 |
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.
- TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$40,548
- Valiant Navion$28,204
- FLOSEAL$10,152
- Gelweave$9,275
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$8,384
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$7,567
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$7,310
- Valiant Captivia$6,009
- TISSEEL$5,567
- E-vita OPEN NEO$5,516
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$5,086
- CoreValve Evolut$5,072
- Product in Development$4,442
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$4,311
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$3,719
- COSEAL$3,521
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$2,805
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$2,706
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$2,530
- VIABAHN Endoprosthesis$2,400
How this compares
$202,744 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 Philadelphia
- Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
- Michael AckerPhiladelphia$271K
- Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$252K
- Nathaniel EvansPhiladelphia$187K
- Marisa CevascoPhiladelphia$186K
- Pavan AtluriPhiladelphia$165K
- Chase BrownPhiladelphia$137K
- Olugbenga OkusanyaPhiladelphia$132K
- Michael IbrahimPhiladelphia$66K
- Joshua GrimmPhiladelphia$56K
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.