Raymond Singer, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Allentown, PANPI 1407807456
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,559 of the $7,962 with a category attached, or 69.8%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 45.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,296 and has fallen 79.6% since, to $876 in 2025.
Across 113 payments — averaging $70.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$4K
- Abbott$2K
- Abiomed$493
- Edwards Lifesciences$390
- AOP Health US, LLC$219
- Baxter Healthcare$193
- plus $750 from 15 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $29,939 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$30K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,40230%
- Food & beverage$5,55970%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 48 | $3,618 |
| Abbott | 21 | $2,299 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $493 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 11 | $390 |
| AOP Health US, LLC | 1 | $219 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $193 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $142 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $134 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $80 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $59 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $38 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $35 |
| Paladin Technology Solutions | 1 | $28 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $27 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $22 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Mitra Clip system$1,080
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$646
- Rapiblyk$438
- Impella$370
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$285
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$269
- NAVITOR$179
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$142
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$142
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$139
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$126
- COSEAL$125
- Cook$110
How this compares
$7,962 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 Allentown
- Joseph BavariaAllentown$1.7M
- Timothy MisselbeckAllentown$140K
- James WuAllentown$24K
- Basel RamlawiWynnewood$1.1M
- Patrick RossWynnewood$956K
- Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
- Scott GoldmanWynnewood$354K
- Frank BowenCamp Hill$310K
- Michael AckerPhiladelphia$271K
- Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$252K
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.