Rachel Kim
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Springfield, ILNPI 1326496563
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (54.6%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 71.6% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,746, more than ten times the $229 reported in 2022.
Across 34 payments — averaging $138.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Abiomed$849
- Edwards Lifesciences$288
- Intuitive Surgical$99
- Octapharma USA, Inc.$57
- Medtronic$29
- plus $17 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,57655%
- Food & beverage$1,91641%
- Education$2295%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 18 | $3,383 |
| Abiomed | 9 | $849 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $288 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $99 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $29 |
| Abbott | 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.
How this compares
$4,722 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 31 | $103 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Springfield
- Russell McElveenSpringfield$16K
- Traves CrabtreeSpringfield$13K
- Lindsey SaintSpringfield$10K
- James GrammOlympia Fields$386K
- Jessica DoningtonChicago$314K
- S Christopher MalaisrieChicago$254K
- Patrick McCarthyChicago$241K
- Samuel KimChicago$221K
- Andrew ArndtWinfield$206K
- Douglas JohnstonChicago$205K
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.