Thomas Schwann, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Royal Oak, MINPI 1134125727
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 41 payments — averaging $165.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Pinnacle, Inc$1K
- Abbott$752
- Atricure, Inc.$587
- Edwards Lifesciences$585
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$229
- plus $796 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,60338%
- Travel & lodging$1,10716%
- Food & beverage$3,05845%
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 | 2 | $2,603 |
| Pinnacle, Inc | 8 | $1,215 |
| Abbott | 6 | $752 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $587 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 5 | $585 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $229 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $170 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $157 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $146 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $126 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $72 |
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$2,603
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$601
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$179
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$145
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$129
- Epic$128
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$127
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$127
- Impella$126
- RESTOREFLOW$125
- LifeVest$105
How this compares
$6,767 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 15 | $112 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 15 | $42 |
| Allopurinol | 23 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Royal Oak
- Francis ShannonRoyal Oak$25K
- Rakesh SuriRoyal Oak$16K
- 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
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.