Steven Macheers, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Atlanta, GANPI 1760447783
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 15 payments — averaging $162.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C.$1K
- Medtronic$687
- Edwards Lifesciences$484
- Abbott$151
- United Orthopedics LLC$21
- Baxter Healthcare$17
- plus $28 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,45059%
- Travel & lodging$201%
- Food & beverage$96840%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C. | 1 | $1,050 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $687 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 5 | $484 |
| Abbott | 2 | $151 |
| United Orthopedics LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $17 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Atricure, 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.
How this compares
$2,438 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 144 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Georgia.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $66 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Atlanta
- Robert GuytonAtlanta$1.3M
- John PuskasAtlanta$1.1M
- Mani DaneshmandAtlanta$924K
- Jeffrey MillerAtlanta$877K
- Manu SanchetiAtlanta$805K
- James KautenAtlanta$599K
- William BrownAtlanta$483K
- Bradley LeshnowerAtlanta$427K
- John VegaAtlanta$377K
- Ezequiel MolinaAtlanta$337K
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.