Paul Vesco, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Sarasota, FLNPI 1487641098
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 105 payments — averaging $533.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$40K
- Intuitive Surgical$13K
- Philips North America LLC$980
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$557
- Medtronic$315
- Edwards Lifesciences$247
- plus $659 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,62731%
- Food & beverage$3,69720%
- Education$8,53447%
- Gifts$1851%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 42 | $40,176 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 36 | $13,045 |
| Philips North America LLC | 7 | $980 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $557 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $315 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $247 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $107 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $102 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 2 | $90 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $84 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $72 |
| Merck | 1 | $23 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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$9,790
- DA VINCI SP$2,500
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,537
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$1,406
- (9124) LM Undivided$426
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$338
- Signia$315
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$231
- Echelon Flex$150
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$127
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$120
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$120
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$120
- HEMOBLAST$107
- TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$102
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$101
How this compares
$55,979 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Sarasota
- Paul ChomiakSarasota$135K
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Thomas BeaverGainesville$1.9M
- Brian BetheaDelray Beach$1.8M
- Joshua RovinClearwater$1.7M
- Kevin AccolaOrlando$1.7M
- Andrew ShermanTampa$1.6M
- Abelardo VargasSunny Isles Beach$1.1M
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$991K
- Bradley TaylorBoca Raton$904K
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.