Parijat Didolkar, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Myrtle Beach, SCNPI 1821252370
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (40.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 55.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $14,084 and has fallen 86.0% since, to $1,967 in 2025.
Across 152 payments — averaging $137.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Abiomed$730
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,46521%
- Food & beverage$7,99938%
- Education$8,50041%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 37 | $11,653 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 25 | $2,780 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 22 | $1,926 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 29 | $1,425 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 13 | $1,236 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $730 |
| Abbott | 5 | $475 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $166 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $104 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $96 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $94 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $66 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Novartis | 1 | $17 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$8,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,414
- TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,193
- ENDURANT IIS$982
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$837
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$657
- Impella$409
- PORTICO$264
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$216
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$188
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$154
- TRICLIP$150
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$130
- 3F$129
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$111
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$106
- KENGREAL$105
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$104
How this compares
$20,963 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 83 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in South Carolina.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 15 | $942 |
| Mupirocin | 80 | $439 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Myrtle Beach
- Heather PalominoMyrtle Beach$22K
- Curtis QuinnCharleston$374K
- Marc KatzCharleston$265K
- Arman KilicCharleston$170K
- Barry GibneyCharleston$39K
- Jacob KlapperCharleston$38K
- John KelemenHilton Head Island$35K
- Kathryn EngelhartdtCharleston$33K
- Gautam BhatiaGreenville$31K
- Sanford ZeiglerCharleston$30K
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.