Has Paul Kempe, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $18,321 in general payments to Paul Kempe, MD across 377 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 Paul Kempe, 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 Paul Kempe, 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.

Paul Kempe, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Tulsa, OKNPI 1396825345

Payments from drug & device makers

$18,321in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 377 payments — averaging $48.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$7K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
Abiomed$2K
Medtronic$1K
Atricure, Inc.$1K
Edwards Lifesciences$711
plus $5K from 44 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,92416%
Food & beverage$12,36367%
Education$3,00016%
Gifts$340%

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
Intuitive Surgical	27	$6,786
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	38	$1,798
Abiomed	23	$1,551
Medtronic(2 entities)	69	$1,260
Atricure, Inc.	34	$1,228
Edwards Lifesciences	9	$711
Johnson & Johnson(3 entities)	19	$513
Davol Inc.	13	$417
Abbott	5	$397
Clearflow Inc.	1	$341
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	20	$337
Baxter Healthcare	11	$324
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	7	$315
Bolton Medical Inc	12	$252
Chiesi USA, Inc.	16	$249
Boston Scientific	5	$193
Nuwellis, Inc.	8	$161
Artivion, Inc.	4	$159
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$110
Novo Nordisk	5	$96
Zimmer Biomet	1	$84
Angiodynamics, Inc.	2	$76
Cook Medical LLC	4	$63
BD	1	$60
Kls-martin L.p.	4	$57
Acera Surgical, Inc.	2	$54
KCI USA, Inc.	3	$53
Polynovo North America LLC	2	$49
Endologix LLC	2	$46
Grifols USA, LLC	2	$45
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	3	$42
Teleflex LLC	2	$40
Hemosonics LLC	1	$40
Livanova USA, Inc.	2	$39
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$39
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$38
Convatec Inc.	2	$37
Solventum Corporation	2	$32
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	1	$31
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	1	$27
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$25
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	1	$24
Reflow Medical Inc	1	$22
Terumo Medical Corporation	1	$19
Stryker	1	$17
Surmodics, Inc.	2	$14
Cagent Vascular Inc	1	$13
Biomerieux Inc	1	$13
Avanos Medical	1	$13
Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.	1	$11

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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$6,395
Impella$779
GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$551
PleuraFlow$341
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$329
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$284
GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$188
NAVITOR$170
Epic$159
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$138
EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$129
3F$126
COSEAL$125
Progel Applicator Spray Tips$123
Endurant$116
Echelon Flex$110
ECHELON ENDOPATH$110
ETHICON$110
Cios Spin$110

How this compares

$18,321 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 48 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Oklahoma.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$176,701

Medicare patients

180

Services billed

343

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	20	$200
Metoprolol Tartrate	27	$94

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Tulsa

Matthew CooperTulsa$1.1M
Kelly NagasawaTulsa$46K
Ajit TharakanTulsa$37K
Michael PhillipsTulsa$30K
John Franco CarabelloTulsa$13K
Robert GarrettTulsa$13K
James NeelTulsa$7K
Shane YamaneTulsa$6K
Kryston BoyerTulsa$4K
David YandellTulsa$4K

See the full list for Oklahoma →

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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