Robert Ferrante, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Appleton, WINPI 1346226826
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $60,400 of the $73,216 with a category attached, or 82.5%. Paragonix Technologies, Inc. accounts for 88.6% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in WI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 187 payments — averaging $391.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$65K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Artivion, Inc.$960
- Abiomed$814
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$60,40082%
- Travel & lodging$6,6239%
- Food & beverage$6,1938%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 24 | $64,858 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 52 | $2,156 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 12 | $1,664 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 44 | $1,659 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 6 | $960 |
| Abiomed | 26 | $814 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $271 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 6 | $198 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $138 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $117 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $109 |
| Nuwellis, Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $54 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $35 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $32 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Abbott | 1 | $11 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,351
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$622
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$430
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$335
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$153
- Impella$143
- SYNERGY$139
- Cook$138
- Mosaic$130
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$128
- GIAPREZA$117
- LifeVest$109
- Sarns$109
- Virtuosaph$109
- CoreValve Evolut$108
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$104
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$103
How this compares
$73,216 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 97 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Wisconsin.
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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 Appleton
- Salvior MokAppleton$6K
- Mario GasparriMilwaukee$516K
- David DemosMilwaukee$446K
- William TisolMilwaukee$339K
- John JohnkoskiWausau$124K
- Ghulam MurtazaMadison$106K
- Robert WiechmannEau Claire$68K
- Justin WatsonMadison$35K
- Ronald MilesWausau$34K
- Thomas CarmodyEau Claire$33K
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.