Ronald New, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Cape Girardeau, MONPI 1912019019
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.4%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 60.4% of it on its own, with 32 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $19,129 and has fallen 77.1% since, to $4,389 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in MO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 725 payments — averaging $83.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$37K
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- Abiomed$3K
- Abbott$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Kls-martin L.p.$1K
- plus $4K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$17,09428%
- Travel & lodging$6,97311%
- Food & beverage$31,30451%
- Education$5,5009%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 444 | $36,759 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 45 | $9,680 |
| Abiomed | 60 | $3,423 |
| Abbott | 48 | $2,952 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 39 | $2,590 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 13 | $1,124 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 12 | $1,060 |
| Corcym Inc | 7 | $844 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 5 | $344 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 6 | $264 |
| Davol Inc. | 6 | $214 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $183 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $169 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $161 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $143 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $119 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $110 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $109 |
| Biostable Science & Engineering | 1 | $84 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $75 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $59 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $46 |
| Mission Medical Distribution, LLC | 1 | $38 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Stryker | 1 | $28 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $24 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $14 |
| Clearflow 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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$25,042
- DAVINCI XI$5,500
- CoreValve Evolut$3,742
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,508
- Impella$2,240
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,250
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$861
- Perceval$815
- Avalus$802
- Epic$718
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$426
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$386
- MitraClip$315
- Mitra Clip system$248
- CARDIOMEMS$176
- NAVITOR$162
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$150
- MANTA Vascular Closure Device$148
- Mosaic$148
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$147
How this compares
$60,870 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 113 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Missouri.
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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 Cape Girardeau
- Paul RobisonCape Girardeau$31K
- George BerberianCape Girardeau$9K
- Justin van MeeterenKansas City$398K
- Tsuyoshi KanekoSaint Louis$353K
- Ralph DamianoSaint Louis$134K
- Joss FernandezColumbia$100K
- Jeremy LeidenfrostChesterfield$97K
- Dante DaliSpringfield$58K
- Puja KachrooSaint Louis$57K
- Umraan AhmadSaint Louis$51K
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.