Thomas Beaver, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Gainesville, FLNPI 1043255607
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (47.7%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 30.8% of the total. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 236 payments — averaging $540.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$39K
- Edwards Lifesciences$27K
- Baxter Healthcare$15K
- Abbott$14K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$10K
- Medtronic$8K
- plus $14K from 16 others
Across 268 payments — averaging $6695.49 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.
- Edwards Lifesciences$679K
- Cerus Corporation$443K
- Abbott$375K
- Atricure, Inc.$180K
- Medtronic$69K
- Artivion, Inc.$35K
- plus $14K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$60,93448%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,6877%
- Travel & lodging$32,57526%
- Food & beverage$10,6298%
- Education$14,74012%
- Gifts$780%
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. | 44 | $39,268 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 19 | $27,200 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 8 | $15,401 |
| Abbott | 47 | $13,552 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 34 | $10,437 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 50 | $7,502 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 7 | $7,250 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $3,500 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 4 | $1,155 |
| JACE Medical LLC | 1 | $875 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $311 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 3 | $272 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 5 | $124 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $115 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Admedus Corporation | 1 | $106 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $104 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $89 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $78 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $14 |
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.
- COSEAL$14,740
- HEMOPATCH$14,740
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$11,941
- Product in Development$7,697
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$6,766
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$5,896
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$4,500
- Evolution$3,500
- MitraClip$3,215
- ADVISA DR MRI SURESCAN$3,021
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$2,675
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,160
- AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$1,027
- TRICLIP$938
- Mosaic$745
- DISSECTOR$675
- EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$623
- On-X$512
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$469
- Epic$447
How this compares
$127,642 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.
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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 Gainesville
- Charles KlodellGainesville$102K
- George ArnaoutakisGainesville$60K
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Barry WintonLargo$687K
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$666K
- John PirrisJacksonville$640K
- Jacques FontaineTampa$630K
- Andrew ShermanTampa$517K
- Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$515K
- Daniel O'HairFort Myers$429K
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.