Tariq Lescouflair, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Columbus, OHNPI 1154616175
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 111 payments — averaging $72.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endologix LLC$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Abiomed$856
- Atricure, Inc.$608
- Medtronic$558
- Intuitive Surgical$484
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,67533%
- Food & beverage$5,24065%
- Education$1742%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Endologix LLC | 14 | $2,203 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 10 | $1,722 |
| Abiomed | 14 | $856 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 10 | $608 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 12 | $558 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 9 | $484 |
| Abbott | 6 | $449 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 10 | $290 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $159 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $141 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $139 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $82 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $70 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $66 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $40 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $27 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $20 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $14 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $14 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 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.
- Ovation$1,877
- THE EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 VALVE WITH ALTERRA ADAPTIVE PRESTENT SYSTEM$1,080
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$389
- AFX$385
- Epic$273
- Signia$160
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$153
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$143
- KONECT RESILIA$142
- ProtekDuo$141
- Da Vinci Surgical System$130
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$120
- Cook Medical Stents$111
- MitraClip$109
How this compares
$8,090 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th 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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Columbus
- Daniel WatsonColumbus$946K
- Eric OkumColumbus$640K
- Bryan WhitsonColumbus$583K
- Desmond DsouzaColumbus$487K
- Gregory RushingColumbus$364K
- Ahmet KilicColumbus$316K
- Jefferson LyonsColumbus$173K
- Nahush MokadamColumbus$141K
- Peter KneuertzColumbus$115K
- Steven DuffColumbus$73K
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.