Tyler Wallen, DO
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Wilkes Barre, PANPI 1407122344
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (37.5%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 33.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,195 and has fallen 88.0% since, to $860 in 2025.
Across 120 payments — averaging $159.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Bolton Medical Inc$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Abbott$235
- plus $529 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,18238%
- Food & beverage$5,96131%
- Education$6,00031%
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 | 9 | $6,326 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 27 | $4,912 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 18 | $3,807 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 23 | $1,752 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 27 | $1,582 |
| Abbott | 4 | $235 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $161 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $129 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $67 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $45 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $28 |
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$6,111
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$2,155
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$950
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$765
- THORAFLEX HYBRID$409
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$387
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$370
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$336
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$289
- Avalus$267
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$156
- Grafts$154
- Mosaic$147
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$147
- NAVITOR$141
- Cook Medical Aortic Intervention$129
- CoreValve Evolut$121
- Relay Grafts$118
- Penditure$114
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$104
How this compares
$19,143 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 Wilkes Barre
- Joseph BavariaAllentown$1.7M
- Basel RamlawiWynnewood$1.1M
- Patrick RossWynnewood$956K
- Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
- Scott GoldmanWynnewood$354K
- Frank BowenCamp Hill$310K
- Michael AckerPhiladelphia$271K
- Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$252K
- Inderpal SarkariaPittsburgh$248K
- Nimesh DesaiPhiladelphia$203K
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.