Safi Haq, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Lafayette, LANPI 1144662651
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (36.1%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 54.2% of the total.
Across 232 payments — averaging $121.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Edwards Lifesciences$9K
- Abiomed$1K
- Medtronic$508
- Atricure, Inc.$439
- Johnson & Johnson$161
- plus $943 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$9,34233%
- Food & beverage$8,74831%
- Education$10,20336%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 39 | $15,346 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 74 | $9,463 |
| Abiomed | 54 | $1,442 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 19 | $508 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 10 | $439 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $161 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $120 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $82 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $73 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $73 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $72 |
| Merck | 2 | $58 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $55 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $43 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $40 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $36 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $31 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 1 | $23 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $21 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $20 |
| BD | 1 | $17 |
| Stryker | 1 | $17 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$28,301 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 75 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Louisiana.
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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 Lafayette
- David AllieLafayette$666K
- Vern KellerLafayette$394K
- Mohamad AllamLafayette$6K
- Mitchell LirtzmanLafayette$2K
- Richard GitterMetairie$1.5M
- Emily CassidyBaton Rouge$1.3M
- Aditya BansalNew Orleans$140K
- Daniel BecklesLake Charles$80K
- Nicholas LeblancBaton Rouge$70K
- Sarah AhmadMonroe$58K
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.