RxDoctor Payments Data

Tyrone Krause, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Langhorne, PANPI 1477525574

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,142in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 69 payments — averaging $118.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$3K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$3K
  • Abbott$450
  • Medtronic$383
  • Atricure, Inc.$376
  • Abiomed$139
  • plus $242 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$3,00037%
  • Food & beverage$5,14263%

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

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)11$3,468
Edwards Lifesciences34$3,084
Abbott5$450
Medtronic(2 entities)4$383
Atricure, Inc.6$376
Abiomed2$139
Davol Inc.2$104
Zimmer Biomet2$78
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation1$25
Johnson & Johnson1$20
Vertex1$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.

How this compares

$8,142 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$32,884
Medicare patients
23
Services billed
44

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.

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