Trevor Ellison
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Baltimore, MDNPI 1285787341
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.9%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. at 37.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,283 and has fallen 91.8% since, to $188 in 2025.
Across 88 payments — averaging $47.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$767
- Medtronic$585
- Edwards Lifesciences$328
- Amgen$179
- Abbott$134
- plus $630 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,91546%
- Food & beverage$2,25254%
- Education$100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 10 | $1,555 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 13 | $767 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $585 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 11 | $328 |
| Amgen | 9 | $179 |
| Abbott | 3 | $134 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $113 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $67 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $63 |
| Novartis | 4 | $62 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $52 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $28 |
| BD | 1 | $25 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $24 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $17 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $16 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $16 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 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.
How this compares
$4,177 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 65 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Maryland.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 25 | $131 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 32 | $131 |
| Mupirocin | 11 | $60 |
| Losartan Potassium | 18 | $59 |
| Valsartan | 14 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Baltimore
- Leonid BelyayevBaltimore$162K
- Neri CohenBaltimore$36K
- Nicholas KarisBaltimore$24K
- Douglas AndersonBaltimore$23K
- Duke CameronBaltimore$21K
- Stephen BroderickBaltimore$19K
- Siamak DahiBaltimore$17K
- Joseph ForbessBaltimore$13K
- Richard BattafaranoBaltimore$13K
- Howard MasseyBaltimore$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.