Robert Farivar, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Boise, IDNPI 1588866354
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (58.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 45.7% of the total.
Across 499 payments — averaging $281.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$64K
- Abiomed$30K
- Abbott$25K
- Atricure, Inc.$11K
- Bolton Medical Inc$5K
- Zimmer Biomet$3K
- plus $3K from 12 others
Across 36 payments — averaging $2728.95 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Helios Cardio Inc$50K
- Abbott$48K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$82,24259%
- Speaking & faculty fees$17,07512%
- Travel & lodging$23,84717%
- Food & beverage$17,14812%
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 | 202 | $64,122 |
| Abiomed | 68 | $29,750 |
| Abbott | 47 | $24,527 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 39 | $10,852 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 48 | $4,994 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 51 | $3,014 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 25 | $1,756 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 2 | $591 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 4 | $178 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 4 | $177 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $123 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $70 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $46 |
| Stryker | 1 | $34 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $33 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $11 |
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$20,468
- Impella$15,468
- Tendyne Mitral Valve System$13,475
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$7,420
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$5,486
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$2,250
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$1,757
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$1,405
- SternaLock 360$805
- THORAFLEX HYBRID$676
- FUSION ABLATION SYSTEM$450
- EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$401
- STERNALOCK 360 SYSTEM$260
- CoreValve Evolut$241
- MitraClip System$164
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$152
- PASCAL$150
- AdvantageRib$145
- FUSION$138
- VIDAS NEPHROCHECK$136
How this compares
Too few thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Idahoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 Boise
- Stephen JonesBoise$316K
- Ashley MorganBoise$30K
- Benedict TaylorBoise$26K
- Matthew SchoolfieldBoise$22K
- Andrew MesherBoise$8K
- Rosemarie SerroneBoise$7K
- David StuesseBoise$4K
- Stephen FallBoise$903
- Andrew ForbesBoise$447
- Fernando RiveronBoise$324
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.