Thomas Vacek
Cardiovascular Disease · Christiansburg, VANPI 1154681989
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 251 payments — averaging $88.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$6K
- Abbott$5K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$4K
- Penumbra, Inc.$3K
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$2K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$436
- plus $3K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,75017%
- Grants$2251%
- Travel & lodging$10,82549%
- Food & beverage$7,07232%
- Education$2861%
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) | 56 | $5,794 |
| Abbott | 27 | $4,555 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 23 | $4,072 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 13 | $2,635 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 8 | $1,626 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $436 |
| Novartis | 22 | $409 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $368 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 20 | $355 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $302 |
| AstraZeneca | 16 | $287 |
| Merck | 11 | $262 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $177 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $169 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $153 |
| Amgen | 6 | $97 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $56 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $53 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $43 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 2 | $38 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $19 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $18 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 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.
- LifeVest$3,750
- TurboHawk$2,471
- Indigo System$2,407
- SUPERA$2,178
- OPTIS$1,825
- Diamondback Peripheral$1,498
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$792
- ADVISA DR MRI SURESCAN$769
- LUTONIX$149
- EKOSONIC$145
- HawkOne$130
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$130
- CAMZYOS$116
- Impella$109
How this compares
$22,159 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 548 cardiovascular disease providers in Virginia.
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 | 151 | $160,385 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 79 | $64,030 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 49 | $28,102 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 26 | $22,073 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 34 | $20,652 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 12 | $9,684 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 42 | $2,679 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 315 | $2,431 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 11 | $2,427 |
| Potassium Chloride | 74 | $1,070 |
| Carvedilol | 154 | $1,006 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 221 | $883 |
| Furosemide | 214 | $851 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 105 | $806 |
| Ezetimibe | 24 | $795 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $19 | $160,385151 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $409 | $64,03079 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga | $287 | $37,78561 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $355 | $22,07326 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $153 | $20,65234 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 548 cardiovascular disease providers in Virginia.
Other cardiovascular disease in Christiansburg
- Tariq HaddadFalls Church$8M
- David LimCharlottesville$6M
- Hamid TaheriManassas$4.9M
- Philip OdonnellWinchester$4.6M
- Antonio AbbateCharlottesville$4M
- George VetrovecRichmond$2.3M
- Henry TranFalls Church$1.6M
- John SchmedtjeRoanoke$1.4M
- Jonathan LindnerCharlottesville$941K
- Christopher KramerCharlottesville$929K
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.