Roberto Rodriguez, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Savannah, GANPI 1639154347
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 452 payments — averaging $2651.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$775K
- Boston Scientific$214K
- Abbott$192K
- Medtronic$11K
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$50,88169%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,1252%
- Travel & lodging$7,50710%
- Food & beverage$13,82119%
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 | 32 | $775,393 |
| Boston Scientific | 107 | $214,043 |
| Abbott | 113 | $192,446 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 117 | $11,304 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 46 | $2,680 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 9 | $1,227 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $269 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 7 | $227 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $173 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $108 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 5 | $101 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 1 | $86 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $58 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $50 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $43 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Shockwave Medical, 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.
- CLINICAL TRIAL PRODUCT$42,491
- CoreValve Evolut$8,057
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$4,850
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,189
- TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,157
- NAVITOR$945
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$735
- PORTICO$651
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$586
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$540
- LOTUS EDGE$375
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$269
- Epic$255
- COR KNOT$173
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$158
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$144
- Impella$142
- Zenith Spiral-Z$131
- Mitra Clip system$130
- Portico Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valve$128
How this compares
$1,198,373 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Savannah
- Jeremy LondonSavannah$1.6M
- Brian BaileySavannah$69K
- Glenn CarlosSavannah$24K
- Mark SuzukiSavannah$14K
- Vinod ThouraniMarietta$5.6M
- Robert GuytonAtlanta$1.3M
- John PuskasAtlanta$1.1M
- Mani DaneshmandAtlanta$924K
- Jeffrey MillerAtlanta$877K
- Manu SanchetiAtlanta$805K
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.