Norman Luka
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Summit, NJNPI 1376574129
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 62 payments — averaging $18.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$391
- GSK$177
- Lifenet Health$89
- Kerecis Limited$89
- Bioventus LLC$66
- AbbVie$65
- plus $283 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,160100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 30 | $391 |
| GSK | 12 | $177 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $89 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $89 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $66 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $65 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$1,160 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 129 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Jersey.
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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 Summit
- Mark RussoNew Brunswick$2.4M
- John BrownMorristown$925K
- Atiq RehmanCherry Hill$503K
- Igor GosevNewark$241K
- Steve XydasMorristown$161K
- Leonard LeeHackensack$143K
- Adam ArnofskyEnglewood$141K
- Kourosh AsgarianNeptune$93K
- James McPhersonPennington$93K
- Yuriy DudiyHackensack$85K
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.