Samantha Kwon, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Ocala, FLNPI 1891802526
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 89 payments — averaging $94.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$4K
- Artivion, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$659
- Edwards Lifesciences$410
- Boston Scientific$314
- Abiomed$308
- plus $769 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,21350%
- Food & beverage$4,21250%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 32 | $4,337 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 13 | $1,629 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 16 | $659 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 5 | $410 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $314 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $308 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $233 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $174 |
| Abbott | 2 | $127 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $70 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $32 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $13 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,709
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$646
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$634
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$531
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$399
- Impella$260
- CoreValve Evolut$259
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$183
- RAM$174
- FLOSEAL$147
- EPI-EASE EPICARDIAL ACCESS SYSTEM$139
- Watchman$135
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$115
- MitraClip$103
How this compares
$8,426 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 79 | $48,506 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 118 | $1,326 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 38 | $437 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 35 | $389 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 78 | $307 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 47 | $249 |
| Bumetanide | 23 | $204 |
| Potassium Chloride | 23 | $203 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 28 | $164 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $105 |
| Amoxicillin | 20 | $80 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 14 | $70 |
| Furosemide | 26 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Ocala
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Thomas BeaverGainesville$1.9M
- Brian BetheaDelray Beach$1.8M
- Joshua RovinClearwater$1.7M
- Kevin AccolaOrlando$1.7M
- Andrew ShermanTampa$1.6M
- Abelardo VargasSunny Isles Beach$1.1M
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$991K
- Bradley TaylorBoca Raton$904K
- Marcos NoresAtlantis$836K
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.