Shelly Bansal, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Saint Joseph, MONPI 1174793111
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $5,310 of the $7,794 with a category attached, or 68.1%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 36.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,648 and has fallen 56.2% since, to $1,160 in 2025.
Across 74 payments — averaging $105.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Abiomed$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$359
- Abbott$182
- plus $509 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,31068%
- Food & beverage$2,48432%
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. | 20 | $2,879 |
| Abiomed | 13 | $1,372 |
| Medtronic | 15 | $1,307 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 12 | $1,186 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $359 |
| Abbott | 2 | $182 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $138 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $119 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $80 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $70 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $27 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $22 |
| Solventum Corporation | 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.
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,178
- Da Vinci Surgical System$999
- Tri-Ad$835
- Impella$828
- Echelon Flex$478
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$477
- Mosaic$163
- NAVITOR$151
- VISTASEAL$119
- Harmonic$119
- STRATAFIX$119
How this compares
$7,794 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 113 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Missouri.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amiodarone Hcl | 17 | $459 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $190 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 48 | $170 |
| Famotidine | 19 | $126 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 14 | $100 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 20 | $98 |
| Potassium Chloride | 12 | $79 |
| Furosemide | 27 | $22 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Saint Joseph
- Jane SchwabeSaint Joseph$14K
- Justin van MeeterenKansas City$398K
- Tsuyoshi KanekoSaint Louis$353K
- Ralph DamianoSaint Louis$134K
- Joss FernandezColumbia$100K
- Jeremy LeidenfrostChesterfield$97K
- Ronald NewCape Girardeau$61K
- Dante DaliSpringfield$58K
- Puja KachrooSaint Louis$57K
- Umraan AhmadSaint Louis$51K
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.