Has Vincent Gaudiani, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $100,965 in general payments to Vincent Gaudiani, MD across 196 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Vincent Gaudiani, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Vincent Gaudiani, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Vincent Gaudiani, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Palo Alto, CANPI 1851317341

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (48.9%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 40.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $36,455 and has fallen 85.9% since, to $5,143 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$100,965in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 196 payments — averaging $515.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$40K
Edwards Lifesciences$32K
Artivion, Inc.$20K
Abbott$7K
Boston Scientific$888
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$119
plus $169 from 5 others

$23,582in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $906.98 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.

Medtronic$24K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$38,57538%
Speaking & faculty fees$49,36649%
Travel & lodging$4,9405%
Food & beverage$7,1907%
Education$70%
Ownership interest$8881%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	67	$40,455
Edwards Lifesciences	85	$32,254
Artivion, Inc.	23	$20,249
Abbott	10	$6,832
Boston Scientific	2	$888
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	1	$119
Biotronik Inc.	1	$59
Baxter Healthcare	3	$57
Octapharma USA, Inc.	1	$20
Elutia, Inc.	2	$19
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation	1	$13

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.

Mosaic$37,706
On-X$18,241
Tricuspid Valve Repair System$6,500
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$1,790
CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$1,000
GENERAL - THERAPIES$853
ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$693
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$467
KONECT RESILIA$442
BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$293
PHOTOFIX DECELLULARIZED BOVINE PERICARDIUM$293
CoreValve Evolut$177
Avalus$165
Epic$163
ENDURANT IIS$158
APOLLOTM$158

How this compares

$100,965 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$109,627

Medicare patients

Services billed

135

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 Palo Alto

Chawannuch RuaengsriPalo Alto$188K
Leah BackhusPalo Alto$74K
Joseph ShragerPalo Alto$56K
Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$875K
Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$764K
Wilson TsaiWalnut Creek$680K

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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.

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