Richard Highbloom, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Camden, NJNPI 1417984311
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (55.2%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C. at 56.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $15,295 and has fallen 98.0% since, to $301 in 2025.
Across 148 payments — averaging $160.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C.$13K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$553
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$13,11055%
- Travel & lodging$5182%
- Food & beverage$10,12643%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C. | 4 | $13,370 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 41 | $3,779 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 22 | $1,625 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 17 | $1,601 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 25 | $1,534 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $553 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 18 | $494 |
| Abbott | 3 | $206 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $183 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $127 |
| Paladin Technology Solutions | 1 | $56 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $55 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $42 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $28 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $26 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Acrobat-I Stabilizer$13,370
- VISTASEAL$795
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$683
- Signia$441
- Penditure$417
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$348
- SternaLock Blu$346
- EVERPOINT$343
- Surgicel Powder$329
- CoreValve Evolut$258
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$240
- STRATAFIX$230
- ETHICON$224
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$151
- EVICEL Fibrin Sealant (Human)$139
- SURGICEL Family of Absorbable Hemostats$139
- Echelon Powered Circular$139
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$137
- PROGEL$127
- SURGIFLO Hemostatic Matrix Family of Products$122
How this compares
$23,753 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 129 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Jersey.
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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 Camden
- Yuji KakuCamden$57K
- Jason HanCamden$26K
- Atiq RehmanCherry Hill$503K
- Mark RussoNew Brunswick$219K
- Leonard LeeHackensack$143K
- Adam ArnofskyEnglewood$132K
- Igor GosevNewark$118K
- Kourosh AsgarianNeptune$93K
- James McPhersonPennington$93K
- Katherine WoodNewark$83K
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.