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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $756,879 in general payments to Robert Kalimi, MD across 456 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 Kalimi, 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 Kalimi, 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 Kalimi, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Manhasset, NYNPI 1588719231

Payments from drug & device makers

$756,879in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 456 payments — averaging $1659.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$722K
Atricure, Inc.$16K
Edwards Lifesciences$13K
Intuitive Surgical$4K
Medtronic$1K
Cardiva Medical, Inc.$289
plus $409 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$11,92025%
Speaking & faculty fees$2,6255%
Travel & lodging$13,26428%
Food & beverage$17,60537%
Education$2,5305%

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
Abbott	293	$721,948
Atricure, Inc.	66	$15,505
Edwards Lifesciences	66	$13,433
Intuitive Surgical	11	$3,853
Medtronic(2 entities)	11	$1,442
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	3	$289
Abiomed	1	$173
Stryker	1	$160
Cook Medical LLC	2	$49
Davol Inc.	1	$15
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$14

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.

How this compares

$756,879 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$335,525

Medicare patients

266

Services billed

610

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 Manhasset

Rick EspositoManhasset$235K
Alan HartmanManhasset$136K
Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
Mathew WilliamsNew York$4.3M
Nasser AltorkiNew York$2.2M
Prasad AdusumilliNew York$2M
Sanjay SamySyracuse$1.7M
David AdamsNew York$1.6M
Koji TakedaNew York$1.3M
Gilbert TangNew York$1.2M

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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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