Has Sara Pereira, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $62,345 in general payments to Sara Pereira, MD across 133 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 Sara Pereira, 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 Sara Pereira, 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.

Sara Pereira, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Birmingham, ALNPI 1851323505

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $37,663 of the $62,345 with a category attached, or 60.4%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 74.7% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $24,410, more than ten times the $1,142 reported in 2019. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$62,345in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 133 payments — averaging $468.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$47K
Medtronic$13K
Abbott$2K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$374
Bolton Medical Inc$319
Artivion, Inc.$199
plus $466 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$37,66360%
Grants$11,23018%
Travel & lodging$7,80213%
Food & beverage$5,6509%

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
Edwards Lifesciences	84	$46,549
Medtronic	21	$12,756
Abbott	13	$1,682
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$374
Bolton Medical Inc	3	$319
Artivion, Inc.	2	$199
Atricure, Inc.	3	$167
AstraZeneca	1	$123
Abiomed	1	$90
Intuitive Surgical	1	$52
Baxter Healthcare	1	$18
Johnson & Johnson	1	$17

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.

INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$2,195
PASCAL$1,923
KONECT RESILIA$1,291
MitraClip$1,130
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$940
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$813
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$746
GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis$347
TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$262
Mitra Clip system$253
Avalus$169
PhotoFix$166
Epic Stented Tissue Valve$164
EVOQUE$147
SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$143
ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$127
TAGRISSO$123
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$116

How this compares

$62,345 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 68 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$123,527

Medicare patients

143

Services billed

399

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
Metoprolol Succinate	14	$281
Spironolactone	32	$127
Potassium Chloride	13	$65
Losartan Potassium	11	$46
Furosemide	14	$21

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Birmingham

Kyle EudaileyBirmingham$184K
Carlton RandlemanBirmingham$161K
James DaviesBirmingham$99K
Andrew PapoyBirmingham$63K
Panayotis VardasBirmingham$49K
Clifton LewisBirmingham$47K
Benjamin WeiBirmingham$18K
Douglas MinnichBirmingham$10K
John ThurberBirmingham$7K
Sasha StillBirmingham$7K

See the full list for Alabama →

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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