Has Theresa Luu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $32,454 in general payments to Theresa Luu, MD across 375 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Theresa Luu, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Theresa Luu, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Theresa Luu, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Marietta, GANPI 1831377092

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (39.3%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 56.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $13,353 and has fallen 83.4% since, to $2,221 in 2025.

$32,454in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 375 payments — averaging $86.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$18K
Abbott$7K
Medtronic$4K
Abiomed$768
Boston Scientific$568
Edwards Lifesciences$409
plus $1K from 19 others

$11,416in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $1902.73 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$6K
Atricure, Inc.$5K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$9,60030%
Travel & lodging$9,89730%
Food & beverage$12,76339%
Education$1931%

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
Atricure, Inc.	161	$18,389
Abbott	77	$6,719
Medtronic(2 entities)	45	$4,144
Abiomed	11	$768
Boston Scientific	7	$568
Edwards Lifesciences	17	$409
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	13	$401
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	8	$201
LSI Solutions Inc	4	$193
Angiodynamics, Inc.	4	$136
Davol Inc.	3	$72
United Orthopedics LLC	2	$47
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	3	$46
Baxter Healthcare	2	$44
Livanova USA, Inc.	2	$38
Cook Medical LLC	2	$36
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	2	$34
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	2	$34
Hydrofera LLC	2	$32
Artivion, Inc.	2	$30
Zimmer Biomet	2	$28
Cvrx, Inc.	1	$24
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$21
Corcym Inc	1	$20
KCI USA, Inc.	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.

EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$11,796
HeartMate Touch$3,600
Octopus$1,768
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,624
HeartWare HVAD$1,203
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,193
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$842
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$760
ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$477
Impella$410
ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$371
GENERAL - THERAPIES$363
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$293
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$253
Avalus$231
MitraClip System$206
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$120
COR KNOT$106
Acrobat-I Stabilizer$104

How this compares

$32,454 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 144 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$226,920

Medicare patients

243

Services billed

456

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 Marietta

Vinod ThouraniMarietta$1.2M
Daniel MillerMarietta$237K
William MayfieldMarietta$89K
Daniel FortesMarietta$23K
Richard MyungMarietta$12K
Jeremy LondonSavannah$1.6M
Manu SanchetiAtlanta$805K
John PuskasAtlanta$332K
Douglas MurphyAtlanta$254K
Ezequiel MolinaAtlanta$215K

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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.

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