Robert Wilson, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Mobile, ALNPI 1629002928
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,941 of the $5,387 with a category attached, or 73.2%. It is spread thinly across 25 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.2%. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $5,387.
Across 96 payments — averaging $56.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$927
- Abiomed$879
- Medtronic$874
- Abbott$710
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$512
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$323
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,37726%
- Food & beverage$3,94173%
- Education$691%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 18 | $927 |
| Abiomed | 14 | $879 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $874 |
| Abbott | 8 | $710 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 4 | $512 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 8 | $323 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $185 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $142 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $95 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Corcym Inc | 4 | $80 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $69 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $53 |
| BD | 2 | $50 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $30 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $24 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $22 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $19 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $15 |
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.
- HawkOne$615
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$556
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$459
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$459
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$459
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$459
- Epic$328
- MitraClip$273
- Endurant$183
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$140
- OSTENE$106
How this compares
$5,387 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 68 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Alabama.
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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 Mobile
- Kareem BedeirMobile$20K
- Carl MalteseMobile$11K
- Dimitris KyriazisMobile$10K
- Charles WyattMobile$9K
- William RicksMobile$5K
- Osman HashmiMobile$5K
- Peter PluschtMobile$4K
- Parker MullenMobile$4K
- William JohnsonMobile$3K
- Matthew WoodsMobile$3K
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.