Ricardo Boix Garibo, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Chicago, ILNPI 1780269746
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 118 payments — averaging $82.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Medtronic$1K
- Abbott$805
- Bolton Medical Inc$571
- Abiomed$438
- Atricure, Inc.$306
- plus $1K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,60137%
- Food & beverage$5,42056%
- Education$7107%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 54 | $5,029 |
| Medtronic | 26 | $1,344 |
| Abbott | 8 | $805 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 3 | $571 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $438 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 8 | $306 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $244 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $215 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $174 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $149 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $125 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $116 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 1 | $111 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $41 |
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.
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$1,530
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$539
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$505
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$417
- Impella$406
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$310
- Avalus$266
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$238
- SJM MASTERS SERIES$172
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$170
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$163
- Perceval$149
- Epic$142
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$134
- COSEAL$125
- PREVELEAK$125
- NAVITOR$125
- Penditure$113
How this compares
$9,731 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Chicago
- S Christopher MalaisrieChicago$1.8M
- Douglas JohnstonChicago$1.3M
- Patrick McCarthyChicago$1.1M
- Duc PhamChicago$529K
- Valluvan JeevanandamChicago$366K
- Jessica DoningtonChicago$314K
- Samuel KimChicago$221K
- Christopher SalernoChicago$212K
- Gianluca TorregrossaChicago$197K
- Charles CampbellChicago$187K
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.