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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,971 in general payments to Paul Linsky, MD across 48 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 Linsky, 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 Linsky, 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 Linsky, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Milwaukee, WINPI 1871818930

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (47.3%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 62.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,927, 7.1 times the $693 reported in 2019.

$7,971in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $166.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$5K
Atricure, Inc.$1K
Baxter Healthcare$369
On Target Laboratories, Inc$227
Edwards Lifesciences$204
Abbott$156
plus $869 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,69921%
Food & beverage$3,77247%
Education$2,50031%

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	16	$4,978
Atricure, Inc.	10	$1,168
Baxter Healthcare	8	$369
On Target Laboratories, Inc	2	$227
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$204
Abbott	1	$156
AstraZeneca	2	$152
Boston Scientific	2	$146
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$143
Medtronic	2	$141
Pulmonx Corporation	1	$128
Tempus AI, Inc	1	$110
Pinnacle Biologics, Inc	1	$50

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$4,626
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$530
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$414
ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$365
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$258
Cytalux$227
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$204
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$156
TECENTRIQ$143
Pulmonx Endobronchial Valve EBV$128
TAGRISSO$125
ULTRAFLEX$125
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$121
PREVELEAK$112
XT CDX$110
ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$106

How this compares

$7,971 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 97 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$42,995

Medicare patients

Services billed

114

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.

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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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