Scott Chicotka, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1174899306
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 114 payments — averaging $76.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Abbott$1K
- Abiomed$917
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$721
- Baxter Healthcare$478
- Medtronic$338
- plus $1K from 9 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $49.79 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Abiomed$50
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,89433%
- Food & beverage$5,56864%
- Education$2293%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 46 | $3,496 |
| Abbott | 13 | $1,385 |
| Abiomed | 20 | $917 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $721 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $478 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $338 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $317 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $314 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $235 |
| BD | 2 | $164 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $112 |
| Corcym Inc | 2 | $91 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $72 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 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.
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,125
- Vasoview Hemopro 2$634
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$404
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$312
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$261
- Impella$256
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$177
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$177
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$170
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$149
- PerClot$146
- KONECT RESILIA$145
- Progel Applicator Spray Tips$122
- PREVELEAK$118
- ETHICON$116
- DERMABOND PRINEO$116
- AGILE ESOPHAGEAL$112
- COSEAL$111
- ZIPFIX$109
- MATRIXRIB$109
How this compares
$8,691 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.
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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 Grand Rapids
- John HeiserGrand Rapids$980K
- Stephane Leung Wai SangGrand Rapids$645K
- Charles WillekesGrand Rapids$510K
- Edward MurphyGrand Rapids$255K
- John ParisGrand Rapids$226K
- Tomasz TimekGrand Rapids$141K
- Marzia LeaccheGrand Rapids$101K
- Robert HookerGrand Rapids$88K
- Geoffrey LamGrand Rapids$17K
- Jordan GroskurthGrand Rapids$16K
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.