Robert Gallagher, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Hartford, CTNPI 1801894829
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (39.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 53.6% of the total.
Across 98 payments — averaging $233.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Abbott$2K
- Abiomed$2K
- Biomerieux Inc$345
- plus $487 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3452%
- Travel & lodging$6,49628%
- Food & beverage$3,97617%
- Education$9,07840%
- Other$3,00013%
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 | 6 | $12,271 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 14 | $3,309 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 12 | $2,680 |
| Abbott | 26 | $1,965 |
| Abiomed | 19 | $1,839 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $345 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $78 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $55 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $30 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $24 |
| Cerus Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $19 |
| Seagen Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| BD | 1 | $14 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$6,271
- DAVINCI XI$6,000
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$1,280
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,089
- MitraClip$989
- Impella$573
- Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring$519
- NephroCheck Test Kit$345
- EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$215
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$161
- AlphaVac$124
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$123
How this compares
$22,896 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 70 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Connecticut.
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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 Hartford
- Jonathan HammondHartford$9K
- Sheelagh PousatisHartford$9K
- Sabet HashimHartford$8K
- Ayyaz AliHartford$8K
- Jason ZakkoHartford$7K
- Randy StevensHartford$4K
- Daniel WalkerHartford$4K
- David YaffeeHartford$4K
- Whitney BurrowsHartford$3K
- Jennifer PerriHartford$2K
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.