Robert Pascotto, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Naples, FLNPI 1568404101
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $5,000 of the $6,976 with a category attached, or 71.7%. Arthrex accounts for 74.4% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $5,583 and has fallen 94.8% since, to $292 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $6,925.
Across 55 payments — averaging $126.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$5K
- Abiomed$324
- Atricure, Inc.$313
- Edwards Lifesciences$277
- Zimmer Biomet$235
- Medtronic$209
- plus $430 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,00072%
- Food & beverage$1,97628%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 5 | $5,188 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $324 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 12 | $313 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 6 | $277 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $235 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $209 |
| On Target Laboratories, Inc | 1 | $98 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 3 | $68 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $66 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 3 | $54 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $40 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $19 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Abbott | 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.
- Impella$275
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$128
- Micra$125
How this compares
$6,976 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 14 | $67 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Naples
- Thomas CaranasosNaples$141K
- Brian SolomonNaples$76K
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Barry WintonLargo$687K
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$666K
- John PirrisJacksonville$640K
- Jacques FontaineTampa$630K
- Andrew ShermanTampa$517K
- Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$515K
- Daniel O'HairFort Myers$429K
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.