Sylwia Karpinski, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Burlington, MANPI 1265622302
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (58.0%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 53.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,606 and has fallen 79.0% since, to $759 in 2025.
Across 170 payments — averaging $81.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$7K
- Medtronic$5K
- Atricure, Inc.$802
- Abbott$194
- Boston Scientific$58
- Quest Medical Inc.$41
- plus $41 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,40017%
- Travel & lodging$3,21123%
- Food & beverage$8,00358%
- Education$1801%
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 | $7,389 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 103 | $5,269 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 10 | $802 |
| Abbott | 1 | $194 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $58 |
| Quest Medical Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $19 |
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.
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$1,707
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,664
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,294
- CoreValve Evolut$957
- Avalus$510
- Mosaic$458
- Simulus$425
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$260
- MitraClip$194
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$152
- CG Future$151
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$110
How this compares
$13,795 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 171 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Massachusetts.
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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 Burlington
- Elliot ServaisBurlington$689K
- Richard DagostinoBurlington$59K
- Saqib MasroorBurlington$12K
- Daniel EngelmanSpringfield$607K
- Daniel RaessBoxford$429K
- Lana Schumacher BealBoston$254K
- Sidney LevitskyBoston$248K
- Robert ThurerBoston$229K
- Margaret MarshallBoston$122K
- Pedro del NidoBoston$119K
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.