Robert Stewart, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Fresno, CANPI 1659350668
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 107 payments — averaging $84.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$925
- Abiomed$854
- Zimmer Biomet$239
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,16624%
- Food & beverage$6,89176%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 28 | $2,186 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 20 | $2,040 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 13 | $1,480 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 7 | $925 |
| Abiomed | 10 | $854 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $239 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 2 | $206 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $190 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $148 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $125 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $124 |
| Werfen USA LLC | 2 | $110 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $80 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $65 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $51 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $46 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $28 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $24 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $24 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 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.
- Vasoview Hemopro 2$772
- Epic$744
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$620
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$566
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$542
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$478
- Impella$371
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$363
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$287
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$274
- AlphaVac$190
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$180
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$173
- SJM REGENT$160
- MitraClip System$146
- KONECT RESILIA$144
- ECM Patch,Pouch$143
- SternaLock 360$130
- ANDEXXA$125
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$122
How this compares
$9,057 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.
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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 Fresno
- Shamsuddin KhwajaFresno$187K
- Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
- Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
- Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$1.4M
- Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$963K
- Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
- Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
- Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$901K
- Michael FischbeinPalo Alto$899K
- Jay LeeLos Angeles$856K
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.