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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,508 in general payments to Robert Kincade, MD across 225 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 Kincade, 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 Kincade, 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 Kincade, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Sacramento, CANPI 1477551638

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,210 of the $10,508 with a category attached, or 68.6%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 31.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,629 and has fallen 81.2% since, to $682 in 2025.

$10,508in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 225 payments — averaging $46.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$3K
Abiomed$2K
Abbott$1K
Atricure, Inc.$1K
Edwards Lifesciences$1K
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$618
plus $1K from 11 others

$43,328in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $2888.53 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.

Abbott$29K
Edwards Lifesciences$14K

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$2,25021%
Travel & lodging$9589%
Food & beverage$7,21069%
Education$901%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	35	$3,285
Abiomed	40	$1,631
Abbott	35	$1,437
Atricure, Inc.	19	$1,296
Edwards Lifesciences	60	$1,122
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	10	$618
Artivion, Inc.	7	$473
Boston Scientific	2	$148
Livanova USA, Inc.	5	$108
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation	3	$97
Intuitive Surgical	1	$60
Bolton Medical Inc	2	$55
Corcym Inc	2	$52
Clearflow Inc.	1	$40
Covidien LP	1	$32
LSI Solutions Inc	1	$28
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	1	$27

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.

HeartWare HVAD$2,484
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$778
Impella$731
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$189
CardioMEMS HF System$186
HemoSphere$173
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$166
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$160
BioGlue$125
On-X$125
PhotoFix$125
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$118
Epic$104
GENERAL - STENTS$102

How this compares

$10,508 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$366,903

Medicare patients

211

Services billed

615

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 Sacramento

Frank SlachmanSacramento$240K
Bob KiaiiSacramento$195K
David CookeSacramento$59K
Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$875K
Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$764K
Wilson TsaiWalnut Creek$680K

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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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