Roland Assi, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New Haven, CTNPI 1184945800
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (40.8%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 48.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,718 and has fallen 61.3% since, to $1,828 in 2025.
Across 80 payments — averaging $166.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$6K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Bolton Medical Inc$2K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$605
- Medtronic$499
- plus $888 from 3 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $9604.67 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.
- Genentech, Inc.$58K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,88822%
- Travel & lodging$4,79136%
- Food & beverage$5,42241%
- Education$1911%
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 | 27 | $6,473 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 18 | $2,000 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 12 | $1,652 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 5 | $1,174 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 6 | $605 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $499 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $476 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $345 |
| Abbott | 2 | $67 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,212
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$1,121
- Perceval$1,076
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$893
- TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$450
- Avalus$290
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$237
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$175
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$175
- Relay Grafts$164
- Relay Plus$149
- COSEAL$123
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$106
How this compares
$13,292 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 70 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Connecticut.
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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 New Haven
- Justin BlasbergNew Haven$468K
- Marc PelletierNew Haven$151K
- Colleen PietrasNew Haven$68K
- Prashanth VallabhajosyulaNew Haven$36K
- Daniel BoffaNew Haven$26K
- Thomas FabianNew Haven$11K
- Fabio RamponiNew Haven$7K
- Markus KraneNew Haven$6K
- Richard SalzanoNew Haven$6K
- Vincent MaseNew Haven$5K
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.