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Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $756,381 of the $894,220 with a category attached, or 84.6%. Pulse Biosciences, Inc. accounts for 67.8% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $516,457, more than ten times the $30,403 reported in 2019.
Across 302 payments — averaging $2960.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pulse Biosciences, Inc.$606K
- Atricure, Inc.$225K
- Helios Cardio Inc$38K
- Vascular Graft Solutions Inc$20K
- Medtronic$3K
- LSI Solutions Inc$719
- plus $1K from 11 others
Across 57 payments — averaging $3685.90 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.
- Atricure, Inc.$131K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$64K
- Abbott$16K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$756,38185%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0000%
- Travel & lodging$129,60814%
- Food & beverage$6,0561%
- Education$1740%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Biosciences, Inc. | 42 | $605,989 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 200 | $225,244 |
| Helios Cardio Inc | 19 | $38,000 |
| Vascular Graft Solutions Inc | 8 | $20,102 |
| Medtronic | 10 | $2,706 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $719 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 6 | $441 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 4 | $387 |
| Abbott | 3 | $361 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $67 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $43 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 1 | $35 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $35 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- CellFX$605,989
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$59,573
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$56,223
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$42,302
- CARDIAMEND$38,000
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$27,135
- VIOLA$13,577
- VEST$6,525
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$6,289
- DISSECTOR$2,867
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$2,227
- Cardioblate$2,000
- ACC2 CARDIAC CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$1,701
- ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$1,434
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$759
- COR KNOT$719
- ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$623
- Avalus$331
- ECM Patch,Pouch$296
- Mosaic$195
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.