Has Robert Dewitt, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $37,543 in general payments to Robert Dewitt, MD across 290 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Robert Dewitt, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Robert Dewitt, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Robert Dewitt, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Alexandria, LANPI 1023009263

Payments from drug & device makers

$37,543in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 290 payments — averaging $129.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$23K
Abiomed$3K
Atricure, Inc.$2K
J.m. Longyear Manufacturing, LLC$2K
Endologix LLC$2K
Arrow Interventional, Inc.$1K
plus $4K from 38 others

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	48	$23,072
Abiomed	81	$3,258
Atricure, Inc.	27	$2,213
J.m. Longyear Manufacturing, LLC	2	$1,800
Endologix LLC	6	$1,532
Arrow Interventional, Inc.	1	$1,350
Medtronic(2 entities)	28	$758
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	7	$690
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	9	$519
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	10	$262
Intuitive Surgical	3	$231
Philips North America LLC	6	$213
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	8	$134
Zimmer Biomet	1	$115
ALON Medical Technology	3	$112
Clearflow Inc.	2	$111
Bolton Medical Inc	2	$100
Chiesi USA, Inc.	4	$86
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	3	$79
Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical)	1	$73
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$65
Merck	3	$65
LSI Solutions Inc	2	$64
Boston Scientific	3	$60
Organogenesis Inc.	3	$50
Artivion, Inc.	2	$50
Biom'up SA	1	$42
Smith+Nephew	3	$41
Baxter Healthcare	2	$40
Cook Medical LLC	2	$38
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	2	$37
Kerecis Limited	2	$34
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$34
Conmed Corporation	1	$31
BD	1	$27
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$25
Ambu Inc.	1	$24
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	1	$21
Olympus America Inc.	1	$17
Inari Medical, Inc.	1	$17
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	1	$15
Biocompatibles, Inc.	1	$12
Eisai Inc.	1	$12
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$11

How this compares

$37,543 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 75 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$522,357

Medicare patients

485

Services billed

1,533

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 Alexandria

Gary JonesAlexandria$4K
Fidel SendraAlexandria$2K
Richard GitterMetairie$1.5M
Emily CassidyBaton Rouge$1.3M
Aditya BansalNew Orleans$668K
David AllieLafayette$666K
Vern KellerLafayette$493K
Patrick ParrinoNew Orleans$184K
Daniel BecklesLake Charles$80K
Nicholas LeblancBaton Rouge$70K

See the full list for Louisiana →

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.

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