Siva Raja
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Cleveland, OHNPI 1548317522
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (51.8%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. at 40.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $5,609 and has fallen 88.6% since, to $642 in 2025.
Across 42 payments — averaging $300.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.$5K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$4K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Medtronic$444
- Atricure, Inc.$233
- Edwards Lifesciences$222
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$4003%
- Consulting fees$6,55052%
- Travel & lodging$2,19717%
- Food & beverage$3,22325%
- Entertainment$2722%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. | 6 | $5,058 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $3,558 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 8 | $2,023 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $444 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $233 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $222 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $210 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $183 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $142 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $105 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $102 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $84 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $25 |
| ICU Medical Inc | 1 | $16 |
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.
- OPDIVO$3,558
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,899
- EndoFlip$230
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$218
- HemoBlast Bellows$153
- PROGEL$135
- ProdiGI$111
- Weck$105
- DUPIXENT$102
- Erbe VIO3$100
How this compares
$12,641 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nystatin | 12 | $79 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Cleveland
- Alejandro BribriescoCleveland$968K
- Alan Marc GillinovCleveland$926K
- Edward SolteszCleveland$835K
- Salil DeoCleveland$419K
- Tomislav MihaljevicCleveland$387K
- Christopher ToweCleveland$370K
- Eric RoselliCleveland$253K
- Cristian BaezaCleveland$237K
- Zhen-Yu TongCleveland$222K
- Sudish MurthyCleveland$120K
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.