Pablo Sanchez, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Chicago, ILNPI 1629479795
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,792 of the $2,447 with a category attached, or 73.2%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC at 28.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,288 and has fallen 61.5% since, to $495 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $3,905.
Across 25 payments — averaging $97.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$695
- Xvivo Perfusion Inc.$369
- Medtronic$309
- Edwards Lifesciences$241
- Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc$234
- Atricure, Inc.$215
- plus $384 from 6 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $10,997 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.
- Medtronic$78K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$42K
- Bridge To Life Ltd$6K
- Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$4K
- Xvivo Perfusion Inc.$2K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$65527%
- Food & beverage$1,79273%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 6 | $695 |
| Xvivo Perfusion Inc. | 2 | $369 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $309 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $241 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 2 | $234 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $215 |
| Abbott | 1 | $148 |
| Stryker | 1 | $81 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $81 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $24 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- KONECT RESILIA$232
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$177
- VersaStep$153
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$148
How this compares
$2,447 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Illinois.
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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 Chicago
- Jessica DoningtonChicago$314K
- S Christopher MalaisrieChicago$254K
- Patrick McCarthyChicago$241K
- Samuel KimChicago$221K
- Douglas JohnstonChicago$205K
- Gianluca TorregrossaChicago$197K
- Valluvan JeevanandamChicago$193K
- Husam BalkhyChicago$129K
- Christopher SalernoChicago$124K
- Duc PhamChicago$114K
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.