Stevan Pupovac, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New Haven, CTNPI 1225492309
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,417 of the $4,778 with a category attached, or 71.5%. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.8%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,419, more than ten times the $220 reported in 2023.
Across 41 payments — averaging $116.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Artivion, Inc.$1K
- Bolton Medical Inc$946
- Atricure, Inc.$884
- Medtronic$759
- Edwards Lifesciences$288
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$171
- plus $640 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,36128%
- Food & beverage$3,41772%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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. | 6 | $1,090 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 6 | $946 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 7 | $884 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $759 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $288 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $171 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $158 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $134 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $125 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $89 |
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$801
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$465
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$374
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$305
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$290
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$290
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$277
- SYMPLICITY G3$246
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$203
- THORAFLEX HYBRID$178
- HemoBlast Bellows$171
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$168
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$145
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$133
- JARDIANCE$125
- Impella$122
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$115
- Cook$115
How this compares
$4,778 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 70 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Connecticut.
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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 New Haven
- Justin BlasbergNew Haven$468K
- Marc PelletierNew Haven$151K
- Colleen PietrasNew Haven$68K
- Prashanth VallabhajosyulaNew Haven$36K
- Daniel BoffaNew Haven$26K
- Roland AssiNew Haven$13K
- Thomas FabianNew Haven$11K
- Fabio RamponiNew Haven$7K
- Markus KraneNew Haven$6K
- Richard SalzanoNew Haven$6K
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.