Thomas Egan
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Chapel Hill, NCNPI 1740374859
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $320 of the $476 with a category attached, or 67.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 67.2% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $262, 5.3 times the $49 reported in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $5,565.
Across 6 payments — averaging $79.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$320
- Accord Healthcare, Inc.$107
- Atricure, Inc.$49
Across 5 payments — averaging $119,913 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.
- Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$588K
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$12K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$32067%
- Food & beverage$15633%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $320 |
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$308
- CAMCEVI$107
How this compares
$476 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 132 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in North Carolina.
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Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Chapel Hill
- Michael MillChapel Hill$137K
- Ashok VenkataramanChapel Hill$39K
- Joseph RubelowskyRaleigh$2.2M
- Matthew HartwigDurham$406K
- Gregory SmaroffNew Bern$205K
- David HarpoleDurham$177K
- Carmelo MilanoLumberton$169K
- Walter ChitwoodGreenville$139K
- Eric SkipperCharlotte$132K
- Brett StarrHickory$95K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.