Richard Morrison, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Tampa, FLNPI 1508880204
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (50.7%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 30 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 36.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $9,183 and has fallen 53.3% since, to $4,289 in 2025.
Across 239 payments — averaging $95.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$8K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Davol Inc.$2K
- Abbott$1K
- plus $4K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0009%
- Travel & lodging$11,60551%
- Food & beverage$9,29841%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 87 | $8,290 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 32 | $2,758 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 6 | $2,480 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 25 | $2,178 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $2,082 |
| Abbott | 11 | $1,257 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 10 | $1,187 |
| Abiomed | 17 | $742 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 5 | $359 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 11 | $333 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $211 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 5 | $162 |
| Amgen | 1 | $124 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $96 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $62 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $51 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $45 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $33 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $20 |
| Stryker | 1 | $19 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $16 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- ENDURANT IIS$5,770
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,649
- Indigo System$1,269
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$994
- Smart Coil$890
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$692
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$576
- Valiant Captivia$508
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$469
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$447
- KONECT RESILIA$431
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$321
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$321
- Barostim Neo System$297
- Impella$266
- MitraClip$161
- HemoSphere$137
- Endurant$132
- HemoSphere advanced monitoring platform$128
- RUBY Coil$128
How this compares
$22,903 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 20 | $74 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Tampa
- Jacques FontaineTampa$630K
- Andrew ShermanTampa$517K
- Lucian LozonschiTampa$354K
- Narendra SastryTampa$50K
- Eric TolozaTampa$48K
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Barry WintonLargo$687K
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$666K
- John PirrisJacksonville$640K
- Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$515K
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.