Tom Theruvath, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Charlotte, NCNPI 1083875058
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (51.5%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 79.9% of it on its own, with 31 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $18,072 and has fallen 86.4% since, to $2,459 in 2025.
Across 521 payments — averaging $142.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$59K
- Medtronic$6K
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Boston Scientific$850
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$580
- plus $3K from 26 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $5077.41 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.
- Atricure, Inc.$46K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$38,27452%
- Travel & lodging$20,59128%
- Food & beverage$15,43521%
- Education$10%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 199 | $59,378 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 109 | $5,646 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 85 | $2,874 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 11 | $1,861 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $850 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 18 | $580 |
| Abbott | 11 | $484 |
| Abiomed | 9 | $425 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 7 | $325 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 11 | $321 |
| Stryker | 4 | $244 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $231 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 5 | $171 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 8 | $169 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 2 | $88 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $73 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $63 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $54 |
| Alcon | 2 | $49 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $44 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $30 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $14 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$24,506
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$9,654
- Mosaic$3,096
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$2,765
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$2,448
- Carpentier-Edwards PERIMOUNT Magna Ease Pericardial Aortic Bioprosthesis$2,121
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,676
- Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring$774
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$566
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$522
- Carpentier-Edwards PERIMOUNT Magna Mitral Ease Pericardial Valve$508
- Avalus$484
- Freestyle$464
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$410
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$305
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$305
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$164
- Barostim Neo System$150
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$145
- 3F$143
How this compares
$74,301 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 132 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in North Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 13 | $201 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 18 | $116 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $86 |
| Methocarbamol | 11 | $62 |
| Furosemide | 36 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Charlotte
- Eric SkipperCharlotte$132K
- Kevin LobdellCharlotte$76K
- Jeffrey HagenCharlotte$69K
- Jeko MadjarovCharlotte$47K
- Jonathan KrautCharlotte$34K
- Philip SeibelCharlotte$28K
- John FrederickCharlotte$14K
- Timothy BrandCharlotte$13K
- Bradley LenoirCharlotte$13K
- Ashish JainCharlotte$12K
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.