Robert Roether, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1801278841
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (41.2%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 37.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $5,779 and has fallen 91.4% since, to $496 in 2025.
Across 97 payments — averaging $123.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Abiomed$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$374
- plus $740 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,93341%
- Food & beverage$3,87532%
- Education$3,16626%
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 | 17 | $4,508 |
| Abiomed | 20 | $1,872 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 10 | $1,858 |
| Abbott | 11 | $1,394 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 11 | $1,226 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $374 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $213 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $94 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $83 |
| Stryker | 1 | $74 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $57 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $42 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $29 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $15 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Pfizer | 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.
How this compares
$11,974 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 127 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Indiana.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 19 | $115 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Fort Wayne
- Joseph GreenleeFort Wayne$43K
- Douglas GrayFort Wayne$18K
- Hannah CopelandFort Wayne$16K
- Barton WilliamsFort Wayne$14K
- William DeschnerFort Wayne$9K
- Christopher GullettFort Wayne$7K
- Marc GerdischIndianapolis$1.4M
- Jason FrazierMunster$574K
- James KellyGranger$242K
- Sina MoainieCarmel$184K
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.