Robert Smith, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Plano, TXNPI 1972718633
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 603 payments — averaging $4844.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$2.9M
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Abbott$3K
- Artivion, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Enablecv Inc.$1K
- plus $3K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,16322%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0004%
- Travel & lodging$21,79640%
- Food & beverage$12,44923%
- Education$6,40012%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 505 | $2,902,859 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 8 | $7,326 |
| Abbott | 27 | $2,977 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $2,144 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 18 | $1,679 |
| Enablecv Inc. | 5 | $1,388 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 13 | $1,204 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 12 | $538 |
| Corcym Inc | 2 | $256 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $94 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $89 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $45 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $18 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$7,212
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$2,000
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$1,941
- THRUPORT SYSTEMS INTRACLUDE INTRA-AORTIC OCCLUSION DEVICE$1,518
- TENDYNE$973
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$721
- Epic$489
- Avalus$433
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$358
- Penditure$333
- MitraClip$327
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$289
- EVOQUE$248
- Zenith Spiral-Z$238
- Perceval$203
- AMPLATZER AMULET$180
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$172
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$157
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$150
- ONYX FRONTIER$142
How this compares
$2,921,015 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.
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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 Plano
- William RyanPlano$2.1M
- William BrinkmanPlano$1.2M
- Michael MackPlano$796K
- Katherine HarringtonPlano$723K
- Gary JettPlano$277K
- Kelley HutchesonPlano$223K
- Timothy GeorgePlano$154K
- John DimaioPlano$128K
- Gregory MessnerPlano$112K
- Fred LeePlano$92K
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.