Thomas Gazdecki
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Trenton, MINPI 1023038023
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 63 payments — averaging $46.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endologix LLC$1K
- CSL Behring$355
- Johnson & Johnson$301
- Cerus Corporation$146
- Medtronic$140
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$124
- plus $695 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,93299%
- Education$201%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Endologix LLC | 9 | $1,191 |
| CSL Behring | 10 | $355 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 8 | $301 |
| Cerus Corporation | 1 | $146 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $140 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $124 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $106 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $83 |
| My01 Inc. | 2 | $80 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $63 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 3 | $47 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $38 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $21 |
| BD | 1 | $20 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $12 |
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.
How this compares
$2,952 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.
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Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Trenton
- Steven BollingAnn Arbor$42.4M
- Matthew RomanoAnn Arbor$2.2M
- Gorav AilawadiAnn Arbor$1.4M
- Himanshu PatelAnn Arbor$1.1M
- John HeiserGrand Rapids$980K
- George DeebAnn Arbor$926K
- Shinichi FukuharaAnn Arbor$881K
- Raed AlnajjarDetroit$781K
- Stephane Leung Wai SangGrand Rapids$645K
- Charles WillekesGrand Rapids$510K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.