Tyler Wahl, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Vestavia, ALNPI 1750724654
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (51.0%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 84.3% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $36,378, more than ten times the $115 reported in 2019.
Across 151 payments — averaging $351.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$45K
- Medtronic$5K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$289
- Edwards Lifesciences$269
- AstraZeneca$237
- plus $995 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$15,62029%
- Travel & lodging$4,8989%
- Food & beverage$4,6639%
- Education$27,04951%
- Gifts$7811%
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 | 67 | $44,688 |
| Medtronic | 29 | $5,058 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $1,476 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $289 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $269 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $237 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $216 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $150 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $140 |
| Ambu Inc. | 2 | $130 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 4 | $74 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 1 | $45 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $43 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| BD | 1 | $25 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $17 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$42,168
- MC3 NAUTILUS(TM) ECMO OXYGENATOR$2,878
- DAVINCI XI$1,500
- VITALFLOW CONSOLE$468
- AdvantageRib$143
- AIRSEAL$140
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$139
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$134
- TandemLife$130
How this compares
$53,012 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 68 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Alabama.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 18 | $99 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $89 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Vestavia
- Parvez SultanVestavia$81K
- Trent HowardVestavia$24K
- Joseph MartinezVestavia$10K
- Kyle EudaileyBirmingham$184K
- Carlton RandlemanBirmingham$161K
- James DaviesBirmingham$99K
- Frans VanwagenbergHuntsville$68K
- Andrew PapoyBirmingham$63K
- Sara PereiraBirmingham$62K
- Panayotis VardasBirmingham$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.