Has Ryan Bylsma, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,674 in general payments to Ryan Bylsma, MD across 71 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ryan Bylsma, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ryan Bylsma, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ryan Bylsma, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Muskegon, MINPI 1205275765

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,674in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 71 payments — averaging $164.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$8K
Atricure, Inc.$2K
Edwards Lifesciences$1K
Abiomed$379
Abbott$287
Medtronic$235
plus $250 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,59414%
Food & beverage$2,58022%
Education$7,50064%

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
Intuitive Surgical	6	$7,742
Atricure, Inc.	11	$1,504
Edwards Lifesciences	33	$1,279
Abiomed	8	$379
Abbott	3	$287
Medtronic	5	$235
Quest Medical Inc.	1	$126
LSI Solutions Inc	1	$75
Teleflex LLC	2	$33
Baxter Healthcare	1	$16

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.

DAVINCI XI$7,500
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,295
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$743
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$166
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$137
Da Vinci Surgical System$131
MPS 3 ND Console$126
SJM REGENT$105

How this compares

$11,674 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$82,131

Medicare patients

Services billed

174

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 Muskegon

Theodore BoeveMuskegon$131K
Steven BollingAnn Arbor$42.4M
Matthew RomanoAnn Arbor$2.2M
Gorav AilawadiAnn Arbor$1.4M
Himanshu PatelAnn Arbor$1.1M
John HeiserGrand Rapids$980K
George DeebAnn Arbor$926K
Shinichi FukuharaAnn Arbor$881K
Raed AlnajjarDetroit$781K
Stephane Leung Wai SangGrand Rapids$645K

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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.

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