Serrie Lico, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Las Vegas, NVNPI 1790746790
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (58.9%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 37 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 28.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,211 and has fallen 60.5% since, to $2,849 in 2025.
Across 203 payments — averaging $69.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$4K
- Abbott$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$959
- Abiomed$684
- Artivion, Inc.$461
- plus $2K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$70%
- Travel & lodging$5,82541%
- Food & beverage$8,37459%
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(2 entities) | 35 | $4,110 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 40 | $3,814 |
| Abbott | 24 | $1,960 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 8 | $959 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $684 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $461 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 11 | $307 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 12 | $283 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $280 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $186 |
| Amgen | 6 | $173 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $169 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $100 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $91 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $83 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $73 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 3 | $67 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $24 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $14 |
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| BD | 1 | $13 |
| Bayer | 1 | $13 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $7 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $3 |
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.
- Mosaic$2,534
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,082
- Mitra Clip system$956
- Avalus$424
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$397
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$394
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$369
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$344
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$272
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$205
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$186
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$179
- THORAFLEX HYBRID$169
- NAVITOR$169
- ENDURANT IIS$169
- Penditure$144
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$141
- Freestyle$139
- MC3 NAUTILUS(TM) ECMO OXYGENATOR$128
- Barostim Neo System$121
How this compares
$14,206 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 41 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Nevada.
See all thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Nevada →
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 Las Vegas
- Peter CaravellaLas Vegas$671K
- Chan ParkLas Vegas$85K
- Ashraf OsmanLas Vegas$54K
- Hazem AfifiLas Vegas$41K
- Nauman JahangirLas Vegas$38K
- Quynh FeikesLas Vegas$24K
- Timothy HamiltonLas Vegas$21K
- Rick BernsteinLas Vegas$16K
- Giovanni CiuffoLas Vegas$15K
- Harbinder SinghLas Vegas$11K
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.