Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Saint Louis, MONPI 1780979070
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 735 payments — averaging $1386.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$830K
- Boston Scientific$60K
- Medtronic$54K
- Abbott$44K
- Johnson & Johnson$10K
- Baylis Medical Company Inc$10K
- plus $11K from 11 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $743.75 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.
- Medtronic$1K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$151,43943%
- Speaking & faculty fees$65,50119%
- Travel & lodging$104,09129%
- Food & beverage$26,2677%
- Education$6,0002%
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 | 528 | $829,799 |
| Boston Scientific | 20 | $59,707 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 82 | $54,344 |
| Abbott | 66 | $43,540 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $10,440 |
| Baylis Medical Company Inc | 4 | $9,700 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 10 | $6,966 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $2,700 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $504 |
| Jenavalve Technology, Inc. | 2 | $440 |
| Corcym Inc | 5 | $176 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $146 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Cardiac Dimensions, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Helios Cardio Inc | 1 | $116 |
| Enablecv Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
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$117,119
- CoreValve Evolut$27,395
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$14,171
- STRATAFIX$8,333
- EVARREST$7,828
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$7,828
- Enseal$7,828
- NRG needle$6,700
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$6,180
- DAVINCI XI$6,000
- Epic$5,325
- Mitra Clip system$3,253
- VersaCross$3,000
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$2,756
- ETHIBOND EXCEL$2,525
- PROLENE$2,525
- AMPLATZER AMULET$1,625
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,327
- Absorb GT1$1,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$880
How this compares
$1,018,924 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 113 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Missouri.
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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 Saint Louis
- Ralph DamianoSaint Louis$816K
- Puja KachrooSaint Louis$410K
- Muhammad MasoodSaint Louis$212K
- Joshua BakerSaint Louis$208K
- Matthew SchillSaint Louis$165K
- Kunal Deepak KotkarSaint Louis$126K
- Amit PawaleSaint Louis$106K
- Umraan AhmadSaint Louis$51K
- Pirooz EghtesadySaint Louis$51K
- Michael MauneySaint Louis$49K
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.