Thomas Matthew, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Bethesda, MDNPI 1750372231
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,737 of the $4,613 with a category attached, or 81.0%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 57.9% of the total.
Across 66 payments — averaging $69.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Abiomed$568
- Atricure, Inc.$487
- Edwards Lifesciences$231
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$177
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$162
- plus $316 from 5 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $10,700 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.
- Biom'up France SAS$11K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$87719%
- Food & beverage$3,73781%
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) | 34 | $2,673 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $568 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 7 | $487 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $231 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 5 | $177 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $162 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $129 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $81 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $45 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $27 |
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
$4,613 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 65 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Maryland.
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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 Bethesda
- Sunil PrasadBethesda$18K
- Alexander NissenBethesda$15K
- Lindsey PrescherBethesda$7K
- Jonathan GowerBethesda$6K
- Keith HorvathBethesda$4K
- Kunda BiswasBethesda$1K
- Philip CorcoranBethesda$717
- Leonid BelyayevBaltimore$162K
- Rawn SalengerTowson$71K
- Neri CohenBaltimore$36K
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.