Robert Gallegos
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Des Moines, IANPI 1205870805
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 635 payments — averaging $246.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corcym Inc$73K
- Atricure, Inc.$23K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$9K
- Synthes USA Products LLC$9K
- Zimmer Biomet$9K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$7K
- plus $26K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$97,50562%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,2003%
- Travel & lodging$24,99416%
- Food & beverage$28,72218%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corcym Inc | 157 | $73,106 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 87 | $23,007 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 49 | $9,264 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 19 | $9,099 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 70 | $8,767 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $6,704 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 60 | $6,318 |
| Teleflex LLC | 7 | $5,946 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 54 | $3,659 |
| Abiomed | 31 | $2,063 |
| JACE Medical LLC | 2 | $1,663 |
| Abbott | 23 | $1,546 |
| Conetic Solutions, Inc. | 15 | $1,214 |
| Philips North America LLC | 11 | $842 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $482 |
| Davol Inc. | 10 | $474 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 6 | $450 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $440 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 8 | $310 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $280 |
| BD | 3 | $237 |
| Stryker | 1 | $157 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $74 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $66 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $63 |
| Biostable Science & Engineering | 1 | $52 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $43 |
| Teleflex Medical Incorporated | 2 | $39 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $22 |
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.
- Perceval$75,197
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$7,434
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$7,425
- MATRIXRIB$6,566
- MANTA$5,771
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$2,000
- PASCAL$1,604
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$1,316
- STERNALOCK 360 SYSTEM$1,246
- Impella$1,093
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,028
- SternaLock Blu$1,000
- ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$889
- CMF & Thoracic Product Portfolio$839
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$814
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$713
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$658
- STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$563
- Epic$489
- PREVELEAK$440
How this compares
$156,421 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 48 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Iowa.
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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 Des Moines
- Bart JensonDes Moines$309K
- Ali Al AmeriDes Moines$53K
- Tayyaba MalikDes Moines$21K
- Ganga PrabhakarDes Moines$16K
- Hashim HanifDes Moines$15K
- Bethany HarpoleDes Moines$10K
- Mark MankinsDes Moines$5K
- Marnix VerhofsteDes Moines$5K
- Robert SchneiderDes Moines$285
- Mohammad BashirIowa City$102K
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.