Roberto Rodriguez, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Savannah, GANPI 1639154347
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $50,881 of the $73,334 with a category attached, or 69.4%. Boston Scientific accounts for 69.7% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $27,199 and has fallen 87.4% since, to $3,430 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 365 payments — averaging $200.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$51K
- Medtronic$11K
- Abbott$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- plus $1K from 14 others
Across 87 payments — averaging $12,931 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Edwards Lifesciences$774K
- Abbott$189K
- Boston Scientific$163K
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 93 | $51,126 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 117 | $11,304 |
| Abbott | 54 | $3,829 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 46 | $2,680 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 18 | $1,889 |
| 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
$73,334 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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$1.2M
- Manu SanchetiAtlanta$805K
- John PuskasAtlanta$332K
- Douglas MurphyAtlanta$254K
- Daniel MillerMarietta$237K
- Ezequiel MolinaAtlanta$215K
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.