Tessa Watt, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Ann Arbor, MINPI 1144633488
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (51.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 64.9% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $13,209 and has fallen 95.3% since, to $624 in 2025.
Across 95 payments — averaging $232.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$14K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Abbott$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$953
- Picard Medical Inc.$166
- Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$160
- plus $260 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,37552%
- Travel & lodging$5,91227%
- Food & beverage$4,76522%
- Education$10%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 32 | $14,318 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 31 | $4,287 |
| Abbott | 17 | $1,909 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $953 |
| Picard Medical Inc. | 1 | $166 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $160 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $115 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $96 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $49 |
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.
- CG Future$7,200
- Simulus$3,361
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,612
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,134
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$554
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$426
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$419
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$179
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$167
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$154
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$127
- Impella$102
How this compares
$22,054 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.
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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 Ann Arbor
- Steven BollingAnn Arbor$41.7M
- Gorav AilawadiAnn Arbor$434K
- Shinichi FukuharaAnn Arbor$236K
- Bo YangAnn Arbor$180K
- Matthew RomanoAnn Arbor$177K
- Chigozirim EkekeAnn Arbor$92K
- Himanshu PatelAnn Arbor$58K
- Rishindra ReddyAnn Arbor$58K
- Barbara HamiltonAnn Arbor$34K
- Kenneth HasslerAnn Arbor$31K
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.