Tyler Spata, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Bryan, TXNPI 1467611996
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 88 payments — averaging $112.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Abiomed$960
- Medtronic$194
- Artivion, Inc.$181
- plus $705 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,78138%
- Food & beverage$3,59736%
- Education$2,51625%
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 | 12 | $3,547 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 15 | $2,485 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 27 | $1,822 |
| Abiomed | 9 | $960 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $194 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $181 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $148 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $125 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Stryker | 1 | $28 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 3 | $27 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 1 | $20 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $17 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,744
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$1,342
- Da Vinci Surgical System$868
- Impella$671
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$552
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$455
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$392
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$217
- BioGlue$181
- On-X$181
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$167
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$150
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$135
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$135
- TAGRISSO$125
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$102
How this compares
$9,894 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.
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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 Bryan
- Robert SmithPlano$2.9M
- Michael ReardonHouston$2.7M
- William RyanPlano$2.1M
- Faraz KerendiAustin$1.6M
- Robert HebelerDallas$1.2M
- William BrinkmanPlano$1.2M
- Robert RipleyHouston$817K
- Michael MackPlano$796K
- Katherine HarringtonPlano$723K
- Danny RamzyHouston$620K
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.