Robert Zurcher, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Columbia, SCNPI 1255301768
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 69 payments — averaging $20.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$392
- Medtronic$333
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$270
- Biotronik Inc.$74
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$62
- Baxter Healthcare$60
- plus $254 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,42699%
- Education$201%
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. | 27 | $392 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $333 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 7 | $270 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 4 | $74 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $60 |
| Abbott | 2 | $46 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $34 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $21 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $14 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $13 |
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
$1,445 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 83 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in South Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 18 | $286 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 26 | $160 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Columbia
- John SuttonColumbia$11K
- James BurkeColumbia$10K
- Jeffery MartinColumbia$4K
- William McMasterColumbia$3K
- Marc KatzCharleston$1.2M
- Curtis QuinnCharleston$402K
- Arman KilicCharleston$230K
- Sanford ZeiglerCharleston$116K
- Jacob KlapperCharleston$72K
- Gautam BhatiaGreenville$59K
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.