Peter Downey, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Los Angeles, CANPI 1417272683
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 104 payments — averaging $152.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$6K
- Medtronic$3K
- Bolton Medical Inc$2K
- Abiomed$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$806
- plus $2K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,04032%
- Travel & lodging$4,02725%
- Food & beverage$6,75843%
- Education$700%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $5,509 |
| Medtronic | 21 | $2,583 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 8 | $2,147 |
| Abiomed | 21 | $1,882 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 20 | $1,196 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 10 | $806 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 5 | $787 |
| Abbott | 6 | $386 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 4 | $295 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $116 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $25 |
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.
- GORE EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis$5,196
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$5,040
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$5,040
- Impella$1,262
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$1,246
- CoreValve Evolut$981
- Endurant$915
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$536
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$461
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$277
- Paragonix SherpaPak Cardiac Transport System$271
- SherpaCool Box$271
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$223
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$184
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$181
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$157
- THORAFLEX HYBRID$157
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$157
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$148
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$148
How this compares
$15,895 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.
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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 Los Angeles
- Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$901K
- Jay LeeLos Angeles$856K
- Vaughn StarnesLos Angeles$771K
- Harmik SoukiasianLos Angeles$737K
- Abbas ArdehaliLos Angeles$630K
- Richard SheminLos Angeles$392K
- Fardad EsmailianLos Angeles$356K
- Alfredo TrentoLos Angeles$335K
- Raymond LeeLos Angeles$291K
- Anthony KimLos Angeles$215K
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.