Stephanie Helmer, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Albany, NYNPI 1093853137
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 88 payments — averaging $87.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Artivion, Inc.$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Philips North America LLC$973
- Abiomed$393
- Medtronic$274
- plus $999 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,28756%
- Food & beverage$3,27742%
- Education$1502%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Artivion, Inc. | 10 | $2,373 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 19 | $1,369 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $1,334 |
| Philips North America LLC | 6 | $973 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $393 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $274 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $174 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 2 | $164 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $139 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 7 | $136 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $93 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $85 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $69 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $64 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $19 |
| Admedus Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$1,591
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,222
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$806
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$633
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$405
- (9124) LM Undivided$401
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$385
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$168
- Impella$147
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$133
- TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$123
How this compares
$7,715 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 28 | $242 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Albany
- Lewis BrittonAlbany$143K
- Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
- Mathew WilliamsNew York$4.3M
- Nasser AltorkiNew York$2.2M
- Prasad AdusumilliNew York$2M
- Sanjay SamySyracuse$1.7M
- David AdamsNew York$1.6M
- Koji TakedaNew York$1.3M
- Gilbert TangNew York$1.2M
- Isaac GeorgeNew York$1.1M
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.