Robert Adams, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1447207436
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 502 payments — averaging $639.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$293K
- Medtronic$20K
- Johnson & Johnson$5K
- Atricure, Inc.$989
- Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$400
- Abiomed$311
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$14,4755%
- Speaking & faculty fees$44,90014%
- Travel & lodging$44,16614%
- Food & beverage$12,8184%
- Education$204,65064%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 387 | $293,432 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 31 | $19,633 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 8 | $4,615 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 31 | $989 |
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 1 | $400 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $311 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $273 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $271 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $184 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $161 |
| Merck | 4 | $150 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 5 | $112 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $76 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $66 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 3 | $65 |
| Abbott | 1 | $50 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Bayer | 2 | $31 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $27 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $24 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $18 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $18 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$284,577
- Signia$5,638
- DA VINCI SP$5,300
- Echelon Flex$3,123
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$1,755
- VISTASEAL$1,755
- Impella$279
- Progel Applicator Spray Tips$273
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$185
- Stravix$148
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$146
- ALIYA SYSTEM$116
How this compares
$321,009 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 17 | $518 |
| Gabapentin | 121 | $336 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Cincinnati
- Kathryn O'KeefeCincinnati$1.3M
- Louis BrunstingCincinnati$228K
- John SmithCincinnati$225K
- David MoralesCincinnati$178K
- Robert DowlingCincinnati$160K
- Julian Guitron-RoigCincinnati$88K
- Steven ParkCincinnati$60K
- Saad HasanCincinnati$35K
- Carmen TugulanCincinnati$32K
- Mohi MitiekCincinnati$25K
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.