Timothy Danish, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Shreveport, LANPI 1457682924
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (38.9%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 44.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $11,403 and has fallen 56.0% since, to $5,018 in 2025.
Across 236 payments — averaging $110.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$3K
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- Abiomed$2K
- Medtronic$926
- plus $3K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,9808%
- Travel & lodging$4,90819%
- Food & beverage$10,12839%
- Education$9,00035%
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 | 26 | $11,680 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 33 | $3,327 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 32 | $3,265 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 14 | $2,049 |
| Abiomed | 38 | $1,536 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 14 | $926 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 23 | $651 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 15 | $523 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $485 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $411 |
| Abbott | 9 | $285 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 8 | $271 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $218 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 7 | $144 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $137 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $108 |
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$6,468
- DAVINCI XI$4,500
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$2,546
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$1,717
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$1,112
- TACHOSIL$1,099
- FLOSEAL$980
- TISSEEL$980
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$828
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$828
- Impella$525
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$467
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$312
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$284
- CoreValve Evolut$246
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$245
- Mosaic$236
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$141
- MitraClip System$125
- PREVELEAK$125
How this compares
$26,016 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 75 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Louisiana.
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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 Shreveport
- Syed MehmoodShreveport$17K
- David HammShreveport$9K
- Curtis PrejeanShreveport$5K
- Vyas RaoShreveport$5K
- John EvansShreveport$4K
- David MullShreveport$2K
- David PennywellShreveport$2K
- Richard GitterMetairie$1.5M
- Emily CassidyBaton Rouge$1.3M
- David AllieLafayette$666K
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.