Robert Thompson, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Gainesville, GANPI 1780812974
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 194 payments — averaging $41.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Abiomed$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$662
- Cvrx, Inc.$304
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$289
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$90911%
- Food & beverage$7,13189%
- Education$70%
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 | 45 | $2,589 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 33 | $1,244 |
| Abiomed | 19 | $1,228 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 18 | $662 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 6 | $304 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 14 | $289 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 5 | $251 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 9 | $223 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $185 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $169 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 6 | $152 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 3 | $134 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 7 | $120 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 3 | $61 |
| Corcym Inc | 2 | $58 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 2 | $29 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $23 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Stryker | 1 | $20 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $19 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $14 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$8,048 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 144 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Georgia.
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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 | 13 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Gainesville
- Thomas GuyGainesville$91K
- Matthew JankoGainesville$18K
- Karen GerschGainesville$11K
- Vinod ThouraniMarietta$5.6M
- Jeremy LondonSavannah$1.6M
- Robert GuytonAtlanta$1.3M
- Roberto RodriguezSavannah$1.2M
- John PuskasAtlanta$1.1M
- Mani DaneshmandAtlanta$924K
- Jeffrey MillerAtlanta$877K
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.