Nimesh Desai, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Philadelphia, PANPI 1457517716
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 539 payments — averaging $2922.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$628K
- Bolton Medical Inc$437K
- Edwards Lifesciences$327K
- Medtronic$124K
- Baxter Healthcare$19K
- Abbott$18K
- plus $22K from 11 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $2025.00 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.
- Artivion, Inc.$4K
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. | 172 | $627,743 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 66 | $437,368 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 98 | $327,490 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 91 | $123,868 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 8 | $19,128 |
| Abbott | 28 | $17,973 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 37 | $15,409 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 19 | $2,054 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $1,587 |
| Cook Research Incorporated | 3 | $1,555 |
| 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 |
How this compares
$1,575,341 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
- Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$1.1M
- Yoshiya ToyodaPhiladelphia$659K
- Pavan AtluriPhiladelphia$645K
- Michael AckerPhiladelphia$579K
- Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
- Nathaniel EvansPhiladelphia$230K
- Christian BermudezPhiladelphia$195K
- Marisa CevascoPhiladelphia$188K
- John EntwistlePhiladelphia$188K
- Joshua GrimmPhiladelphia$180K
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.