Samuel Youssef, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Seattle, WANPI 1639330475
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 45 payments — averaging $83.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Artivion, Inc.$778
- Abbott$606
- Bolton Medical Inc$402
- Abiomed$273
- Zimmer Biomet$148
- plus $351 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,44238%
- Food & beverage$2,24259%
- Education$872%
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 | 10 | $1,214 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $778 |
| Abbott | 13 | $606 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 5 | $402 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $273 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $148 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $87 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $29 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
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.
- HeartWare HVAD$960
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$778
- Valiant Navion$172
- Relay Plus$167
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$156
- HTR-PEKK$148
- Cook Medical Accessories$125
- Impella$125
- Relay Grafts$105
How this compares
$3,771 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 105 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Washington.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 15 | $62 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Seattle
- Glenn BarnhartSeattle$608K
- Michael MulliganSeattle$509K
- Eric LehrSeattle$498K
- Brian LouieSeattle$284K
- Adam BogradSeattle$245K
- Eric VallieresSeattle$202K
- Jeffrey KeenanSeattle$175K
- Gabriel AldeaSeattle$80K
- Shakirat OyetunjiSeattle$53K
- Christopher BurkeSeattle$33K
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.