Has Steve Xydas, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,542 in general payments to Steve Xydas, MD across 146 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Steve Xydas, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Steve Xydas, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Steve Xydas, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Morristown, NJNPI 1083779888

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 63.0% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,635 and has fallen 62.3% since, to $1,370 in 2025.

$11,542in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 146 payments — averaging $79.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$7K
Atricure, Inc.$1K
Hemosonics LLC$563
Zimmer Biomet$426
Abbott$308
Bolton Medical Inc$302
plus $1K from 15 others

$149,199in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 70 payments — averaging $2131.42 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Edwards Lifesciences$139K
Medtronic$10K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,72841%
Food & beverage$6,81459%

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
Edwards Lifesciences	64	$7,273
Atricure, Inc.	15	$1,325
Hemosonics LLC	28	$563
Zimmer Biomet	7	$426
Abbott	3	$308
Bolton Medical Inc	4	$302
Davol Inc.	3	$210
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	2	$184
LSI Solutions Inc	2	$150
Medtronic(2 entities)	3	$150
Intuitive Surgical	2	$115
Livanova USA, Inc.	2	$100
Abiomed	1	$98
Angiodynamics, Inc.	2	$90
Boston Scientific	1	$89
Johnson & Johnson	1	$42
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	1	$33
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$30
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	1	$20
Solventum Corporation	1	$20
Artivion, Inc.	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.

How this compares

$11,542 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 129 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$216,602

Medicare patients

174

Services billed

352

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.

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Christopher MagovernMorristown$6K
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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.

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