Parvez Sultan, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Vestavia, ALNPI 1356381685
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 496 payments — averaging $163.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baxter Healthcare$43K
- Medtronic$13K
- Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical)$12K
- Elutia, Inc.$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Octapharma USA, Inc.$1K
- plus $8K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$31,75239%
- Speaking & faculty fees$14,23418%
- Travel & lodging$8,56111%
- Food & beverage$24,17030%
- Education$2,3533%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Healthcare | 78 | $43,169 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 222 | $12,738 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 21 | $11,936 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 26 | $2,323 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 17 | $2,081 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 10 | $1,303 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $1,128 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $1,092 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 3 | $887 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 9 | $774 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 22 | $525 |
| Abbott | 6 | $473 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 8 | $460 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 19 | $397 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 4 | $297 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $227 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 8 | $183 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $124 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 5 | $116 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $104 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $103 |
| Body Vision Medical Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $51 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $45 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| BD | 2 | $41 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $35 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $31 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $27 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $26 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 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.
- FLOSEAL$32,421
- COSEAL$11,378
- PREVELEAK$7,902
- TISSEEL$7,619
- HEMOPATCH$2,120
- Valiant Captivia$1,736
- Tri-Ad$1,593
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,515
- Mosaic$1,370
- FIBRYGA & BALFAXAR$1,246
- ENDURANT IIS$1,098
- EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$1,075
- ECM Patch,Pouch$1,023
- Grafts$993
- MiraQ$887
- CHARTIS CATHETER$680
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$680
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$680
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$680
- Avalus$522
How this compares
$81,070 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 68 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Alabama.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 110 | $775 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 32 | $237 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Vestavia
- Tyler WahlVestavia$53K
- Trent HowardVestavia$24K
- Joseph MartinezVestavia$10K
- Kyle EudaileyBirmingham$373K
- Frans VanwagenbergHuntsville$286K
- James DaviesBirmingham$279K
- Carlton RandlemanBirmingham$161K
- Shaf HoldenHuntsville$114K
- Clifton LewisBirmingham$71K
- Andrew PapoyBirmingham$63K
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.