Persida Drotar, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Newark, NJNPI 1902245053
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,958 of the $8,285 with a category attached, or 71.9%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 35.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,982, 2.6 times the $1,130 reported in 2019.
Across 109 payments — averaging $76.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abiomed$407
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$173
- Heartflow, Inc.$127
- plus $782 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,32628%
- Food & beverage$5,95872%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 35 | $2,908 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 22 | $2,144 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 27 | $1,744 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $407 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $173 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $127 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $124 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $123 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $115 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Abbott | 1 | $72 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $47 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $37 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $36 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $17 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,754
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$597
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$449
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$245
- Impella$227
- AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$209
- SHOCKWAVE INTRAVASCULAR LITHOTRIPSY (IVL) SYSTEM WITH THE SHOCKWAVE C2+ CORONARY$173
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$170
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$158
- FFRct$127
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$126
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$126
- XARELTO$124
- TAGRISSO$123
- PREVENA$106
How this compares
$8,285 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 129 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Jersey.
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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 Newark
- Igor GosevNewark$118K
- Katherine WoodNewark$83K
- Karla Rodriguez-BarraganNewark$29K
- Andrew GoldstoneNewark$6K
- Louis SteinNewark$6K
- Atiq RehmanCherry Hill$503K
- Mark RussoNew Brunswick$219K
- Leonard LeeHackensack$143K
- Adam ArnofskyEnglewood$132K
- Kourosh AsgarianNeptune$93K
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.