Siddharth Pahwa
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Louisville, KYNPI 1003398207
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (51.3%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 28 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 42.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,871, more than ten times the $200 reported in 2020.
Across 128 payments — averaging $89.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$5K
- Medtronic$4K
- Corcym Inc$1K
- Abiomed$320
- GT Medical Technologies, Inc$172
- Baxter Healthcare$136
- plus $912 from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,25011%
- Travel & lodging$5,85951%
- Food & beverage$4,30338%
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. | 26 | $4,875 |
| Medtronic | 52 | $3,901 |
| Corcym Inc | 13 | $1,096 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $320 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 1 | $172 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $136 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $123 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $113 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $85 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $79 |
| Stryker | 1 | $61 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $59 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $51 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $36 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Monaghan Medical Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $26 |
| My01 Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Cerus Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $19 |
| Merck | 1 | $17 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $14 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $13 |
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.
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$3,679
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$2,402
- Octopus$1,596
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,535
- Simulus$1,316
- ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$1,229
- DISSECTOR$1,229
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$851
- Perceval$806
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$202
- GammaTile$172
- Impella$150
- FARXIGA$111
- FLOSEAL$106
- Legacy$102
How this compares
$11,413 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 98 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Kentucky.
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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 Louisville
- Steven PetersonLouisville$283K
- Mark SlaughterLouisville$39K
- Sebastian PagniLouisville$28K
- George MikosLouisville$19K
- Steven EtochLouisville$17K
- Austen HuftonLouisville$16K
- David RosenbaumLouisville$14K
- Matthew FoxLouisville$12K
- Angela MahanLouisville$9K
- Yash VaidyaLouisville$9K
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.