Thomas Kartis, MD
Vascular Surgery · Port Charlotte, FLNPI 1265451652
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 211 payments — averaging $36.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- Cook Medical LLC$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$971
- Endologix LLC$861
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$249
- plus $2K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2894%
- Food & beverage$7,36496%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 27 | $1,184 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 14 | $1,159 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 43 | $1,024 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 25 | $971 |
| Endologix LLC | 9 | $861 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 8 | $249 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 19 | $242 |
| Philips North America LLC | 5 | $188 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $184 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 5 | $139 |
| Abbott | 4 | $137 |
| Stryker | 5 | $134 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $123 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $113 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $87 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $85 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $70 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $60 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $50 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $46 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $34 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $33 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $32 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $29 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Merck | 1 | $28 |
| Neuros Medical, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $21 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Intact Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $15 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $11 |
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.
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,143
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$932
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$271
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$250
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$212
- Ovation$168
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$136
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$123
- IGT Devices Und$120
- ENDURANT IIS$114
- Cook Medical Thoracic$104
How this compares
$7,653 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 385 vascular surgery providers in Florida.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 31 | $29,594 |
| Cilostazol | 159 | $4,148 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 374 | $4,033 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Port Charlotte
- Samuel TapperStuart$1.3M
- Erin MooreJacksonville$488K
- Mariano ArosemenaBradenton$472K
- Woongchae LeeBoca Raton$414K
- Manuel Perez IzquierdoOrlando$396K
- Murray ShamesTampa$354K
- Joseph RicottaDelray Beach$344K
- Martin BackTampa$303K
- Rajesh MalikNaples$296K
- Eduardo MartinezMiami$288K
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.