Has Phillip Rowse, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,058 in general payments to Phillip Rowse, MD across 34 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 Phillip Rowse, MD 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 Phillip Rowse, MD 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.

Phillip Rowse, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Rochester, MNNPI 1790096204

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (49.7%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 4 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 57.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,698 and has fallen 93.8% since, to $291 in 2025.

$9,058in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $266.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$5K
Edwards Lifesciences$3K
Atricure, Inc.$440
Enablecv Inc.$113

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,79131%
Food & beverage$1,76720%
Education$4,50050%

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	8	$5,242
Edwards Lifesciences	18	$3,263
Atricure, Inc.	7	$440
Enablecv Inc.	1	$113

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

$9,058 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 128 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$220,556

Medicare patients

180

Services billed

343

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 Rochester

Malakh ShresthaRochester$89K
Juan CrestanelloRochester$56K
Janani ReisenauerRochester$46K
Monisha SudarshanRochester$22K
Arman ArghamiRochester$16K
Yahya AlwatariRochester$13K
Elvis CamachoRochester$11K
Stephen CassiviRochester$10K
K Robert ShenRochester$7K
Luis Tapias VargasRochester$7K

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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.

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