Peter Caravella, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Las Vegas, NVNPI 1497945232
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 947 payments — averaging $708.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$664K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$2K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$667
- Medtronic$606
- Davol Inc.$496
- Sirtex Medical Inc$437
- plus $3K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,9000%
- Speaking & faculty fees$201,93830%
- Travel & lodging$43,5926%
- Food & beverage$33,9195%
- Education$389,52558%
- Gifts$2040%
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 | 843 | $664,392 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $1,900 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 11 | $667 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 16 | $606 |
| Davol Inc. | 15 | $496 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 3 | $437 |
| Distalmotion US | 4 | $327 |
| Koya Medical, Inc. | 1 | $326 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 15 | $272 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $250 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $183 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $153 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $146 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $104 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $93 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 1 | $90 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $83 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $69 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $56 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $49 |
| Abbott | 1 | $37 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $29 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $24 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $18 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $18 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Angiodynamics, 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$629,964
- DA VINCI SP$23,800
- HTX-011$1,900
- Dayspring$978
- SIR-Spheres Microspheres$437
- Koya Medical$326
- ENDURANT IIS$288
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$250
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$250
- DEXTER L6 ROBOT$188
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$183
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$183
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$183
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$183
- PHASIX$152
- ALIF$146
- OviTex 2S$145
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$140
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$104
How this compares
$671,077 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 41 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Nevada.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 25 | $883 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 29 | $151 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Las Vegas
- Sunjay KaushalLas Vegas$94K
- Chan ParkLas Vegas$85K
- Ashraf OsmanLas Vegas$54K
- Hazem AfifiLas Vegas$41K
- Nauman JahangirLas Vegas$38K
- Quynh FeikesLas Vegas$24K
- Timothy HamiltonLas Vegas$21K
- Rick BernsteinLas Vegas$16K
- Giovanni CiuffoLas Vegas$15K
- Serrie LicoLas Vegas$14K
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.