Thomas Kleisli, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Memphis, TNNPI 1518195627
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 34 payments — averaging $36.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$283
- Davol Inc.$164
- Cvrx, Inc.$114
- Prism Medical$112
- Haemonetics Corporation$93
- Johnson & Johnson$90
- plus $396 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,19395%
- Education$605%
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) | 6 | $283 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $164 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Prism Medical | 3 | $112 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $93 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $90 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $86 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $55 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $25 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $20 |
| GSK | 1 | $19 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $18 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $16 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $15 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $14 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $13 |
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
$1,253 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 115 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Tennessee.
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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 Memphis
- Harvey GarrettMemphis$1.5M
- Danielle SenMemphis$52K
- Rachel HarrisonMemphis$36K
- Bradley WolfMemphis$32K
- Edward RobbinsMemphis$31K
- Ganpat ValaulikarMemphis$13K
- Thomas NgMemphis$10K
- Christopher MutrieMemphis$10K
- Glenn SchoettleMemphis$6K
- William FristNashville$1.1M
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.