Has Patrick McCarthy, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $240,922 in general payments to Patrick McCarthy, MD across 280 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Patrick McCarthy, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Patrick McCarthy, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Patrick McCarthy, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Chicago, ILNPI 1679506554

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $169,017 of the $240,922 with a category attached, or 70.2%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 40.3% of the total. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$240,922in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 280 payments — averaging $860.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$97K
Atricure, Inc.$81K
Abbott$27K
Medtronic$22K
Arthrex$12K
Eko Health, Inc.$429
plus $575 from 6 others

$848,428in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 162 payments — averaging $5237.21 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.

Edwards Lifesciences$448K
Atricure, Inc.$294K
Medtronic$107K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$169,01770%
Speaking & faculty fees$43,91518%
Travel & lodging$16,4517%
Food & beverage$11,1105%
Other$4290%

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
Edwards Lifesciences	71	$97,110
Atricure, Inc.	79	$81,209
Abbott	71	$27,334
Medtronic(2 entities)	32	$21,955
Arthrex	18	$12,310
Eko Health, Inc.	1	$429
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	2	$289
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$105
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc	1	$69
Zimmer Biomet	1	$43
Boston Scientific	1	$41
Stryker	1	$27

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.

SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$57,719
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$18,096
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$13,514
Mitra Clip system$10,142
MitraClip$10,045
Tri-Ad$8,500
MitraClip System$4,830
CG Future$3,600
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$3,323
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$3,170
Simulus$3,000
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$3,000
ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$2,620
CryoFlex$1,000
Mosaic$918
Micra$625
NAVITOR$368
CorPath Imaging System$289
CryoConsole$160
Avalus$149

How this compares

$240,922 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$65,935

Medicare patients

Services billed

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

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Douglas JohnstonChicago$205K
Gianluca TorregrossaChicago$197K
Valluvan JeevanandamChicago$193K
Husam BalkhyChicago$129K
Christopher SalernoChicago$124K
Duc PhamChicago$114K
Gillian AlexChicago$97K

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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.

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