Terry Stelly, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1356349195
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.9%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 40.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,322 and has fallen 94.4% since, to $129 in 2025.
Across 80 payments — averaging $102.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$876
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$597
- Abiomed$374
- Abbott$306
- plus $859 from 10 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $16,255 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.
- Atricure, Inc.$16K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$79010%
- Travel & lodging$3,33841%
- Food & beverage$4,11250%
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 | 22 | $3,369 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 24 | $1,859 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $876 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 8 | $597 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $374 |
| Abbott | 3 | $306 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 3 | $218 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $122 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $122 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $108 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $87 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $46 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $33 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $19 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$2,380
- ZIPFIX$790
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$606
- Impella$298
- AngioVac$194
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$123
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$122
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$122
- Cook$122
- ECM Patch,Pouch$113
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$108
How this compares
$8,239 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 75 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Louisiana.
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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 Baton Rouge
- Emily CassidyBaton Rouge$1.3M
- Nicholas LeblancBaton Rouge$70K
- Imtiaz KhanBaton Rouge$42K
- Azeem KhanBaton Rouge$24K
- Shafi MohamedBaton Rouge$16K
- William BoedefeldBaton Rouge$13K
- Jared MurdockBaton Rouge$10K
- Thomas MarsdenBaton Rouge$2K
- Carl RigbyBaton Rouge$2K
- Walter Bringaze IiiBaton Rouge$2K
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.