Timothy Trotter, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Oklahoma City, OKNPI 1285602532
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $436 of the $485 with a category attached, or 89.9%. It is spread thinly across 12 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $264 and has fallen 92.4% since, to $20 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in OK, where the typical reported total is $3,130.
Across 20 payments — averaging $24.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$108
- Surmodics, Inc.$85
- Hemosonics LLC$76
- Zimmer Biomet$61
- Baxter Healthcare$33
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$25
- plus $98 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$43690%
- Education$4910%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 4 | $108 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $76 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $61 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $33 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Abbott | 1 | $22 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $15 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $11 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $10 |
How this compares
$485 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 48 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Oklahoma.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 40 | $262 |
| Furosemide | 13 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Oklahoma City
- James LongOklahoma City$634K
- Charles ElkinsOklahoma City$42K
- James ReinersmanOklahoma City$40K
- David VanhooserOklahoma City$25K
- Michael CannonOklahoma City$18K
- Daniel FrenoOklahoma City$16K
- Jess SchwartzOklahoma City$16K
- Marshall BellOklahoma City$14K
- Steven MillerOklahoma City$7K
- Jess ThompsonOklahoma City$5K
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.