Stephen Bailey, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1033185277
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 439 payments — averaging $3074.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$1M
- Abbott$129K
- Medtronic$88K
- Atricure, Inc.$79K
- Boston Scientific$10K
- Covidien LP$4K
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,15028%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,85012%
- Travel & lodging$6,66020%
- Food & beverage$13,12340%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 228 | $1,037,360 |
| Abbott | 75 | $129,070 |
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 91 | $88,357 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 8 | $78,586 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $10,258 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $3,850 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $715 |
| Cerus Corporation | 3 | $292 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $228 |
| Stryker | 1 | $168 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $167 |
| Centerline Biomedical Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $123 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $109 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $88 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $39 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $20 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $7 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$7,239
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$6,289
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$1,616
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,223
- Cardioblate$1,110
- CoreValve Evolut$436
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$422
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$330
- Epic$299
- Impella$289
- INTERCEPT BLOOD SYSTEM FOR PLATELETS$266
- NAVITOR$193
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$180
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$180
- VENACORE THROMBECTOMY CATHETER$168
- ZIO XT Patch$167
- MitraClip$162
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$159
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$159
- EVOQUE$150
How this compares
$1,349,659 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 Pittsburgh
- Benny WekslerPittsburgh$1.5M
- Walter McGregorPittsburgh$715K
- Inderpal SarkariaPittsburgh$248K
- Nicholas BakerPittsburgh$169K
- Pietro BajonaPittsburgh$147K
- David KaczorowskiPittsburgh$126K
- Rajeev DhuparPittsburgh$69K
- Robert MoracaPittsburgh$67K
- Robert KormosPittsburgh$58K
- Hiroyuki TsukuiPittsburgh$45K
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.