Has Pedro del Nido received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $118,710 in general payments to Pedro del Nido across 29 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 Pedro del Nido 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 Pedro del Nido 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.

Pedro del Nido

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Boston, MANPI 1134230998

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $110,615 of the $118,710 with a category attached, or 93.2%. Circa Scientific, Inc. accounts for 74.0% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $86,938 and has fallen 96.2% since, to $3,319 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in MA 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.

$118,710in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $4093.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Circa Scientific, Inc.$88K
Edwards Lifesciences$13K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$6K
Philips North America LLC$5K
Artivion, Inc.$3K
Medtronic$2K
plus $2K from 1 others

$237,839in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $9147.66 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$231K
Medtronic$7K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$110,61593%
Travel & lodging$7,6766%
Food & beverage$4190%

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
Circa Scientific, Inc.	2	$87,900
Edwards Lifesciences	9	$13,424
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$5,500
Philips North America LLC	1	$5,070
Artivion, Inc.	4	$2,544
Medtronic	10	$2,253
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$2,020

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.

How this compares

$118,710 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 171 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Massachusetts.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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