Valluvan Jeevanandam
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Chicago, ILNPI 1285738344
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $163,073 of the $192,639 with a category attached, or 84.7%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 58.1% of the total. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 277 payments — averaging $695.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$112K
- AstraZeneca$43K
- Zimmer Biomet$11K
- GE HealthCare$9K
- Baxter Healthcare$8K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$5K
- plus $5K from 13 others
Across 23 payments — averaging $7554.94 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.
- BTG International Inc.$121K
- Medtronic$24K
- AstraZeneca$21K
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Ltd$8K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$163,07385%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,6703%
- Travel & lodging$14,2387%
- Food & beverage$8,4594%
- Education$1550%
- Gifts$450%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 170 | $111,856 |
| AstraZeneca | 42 | $42,523 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 17 | $10,537 |
| GE HealthCare | 7 | $9,494 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $7,998 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $5,250 |
| Astrazeneca AB | 1 | $2,685 |
| Nihon Kohden America, LLC | 4 | $600 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 14 | $589 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 5 | $261 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $234 |
| Nuwellis, Inc. | 1 | $155 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $152 |
| Helios Cardio Inc | 1 | $74 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $65 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $65 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $44 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 1 | $35 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $21 |
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.
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$68,047
- HeartMate$16,200
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$14,193
- ULTOMIRIS$10,892
- No Related Product$7,920
- SternaLock Blu$7,250
- CardioMEMS HF System$7,200
- THYMOGLOBULIN$5,250
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,500
- AMPLATZER Occluders$1,200
- SternaLock 360$723
- HeartMate PHP$666
- Thoracic Reconstruction$430
- HeartWare HVAD$239
- Impella$234
- Cardiovascular- Research only$206
- HeartMate Touch$181
- STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$174
- AQUADEX SMARTFLOW CONSOLE$155
- MiraQ$152
How this compares
$192,639 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| ZerbaxaCeftolozane/Tazobactam | 26 | $169,589 |
| Oxacillin Sodium | 53 | $39,081 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Chicago
- Jessica DoningtonChicago$314K
- S Christopher MalaisrieChicago$254K
- Patrick McCarthyChicago$241K
- Samuel KimChicago$221K
- Douglas JohnstonChicago$205K
- Gianluca TorregrossaChicago$197K
- Husam BalkhyChicago$129K
- Christopher SalernoChicago$124K
- Duc PhamChicago$114K
- Gillian AlexChicago$97K
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.