Steven Park, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1457385817
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,464 of the $8,267 with a category attached, or 78.2%. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 32.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,387 and has fallen 93.0% since, to $167 in 2025.
Across 224 payments — averaging $36.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Artivion, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$683
- Haemonetics Corporation$177
- Covidien LP$135
- plus $714 from 17 others
Across 37 payments — averaging $1400.45 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.
- Medtronic$52K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,80322%
- Food & beverage$6,46478%
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 | 52 | $2,655 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 79 | $2,065 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 17 | $1,837 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 45 | $683 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 2 | $177 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $135 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $102 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $90 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $87 |
| Bayer | 4 | $56 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $46 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $44 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $26 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $20 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $18 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $16 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $14 |
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
$8,267 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 21 | $101 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 42 | $80 |
| Lisinopril | 14 | $75 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 22 | $63 |
| Furosemide | 17 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Cincinnati
- Robert AdamsCincinnati$321K
- Louis BrunstingCincinnati$210K
- David MoralesCincinnati$163K
- John SmithCincinnati$153K
- Kathryn O'KeefeCincinnati$123K
- Julian Guitron-RoigCincinnati$85K
- Robert DowlingCincinnati$82K
- Saad HasanCincinnati$35K
- Carmen TugulanCincinnati$32K
- Mohi MitiekCincinnati$25K
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.