Vinu Abraham, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Indianapolis, INNPI 1336123249
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $8,115 of the $13,048 with a category attached, or 62.2%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 28.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,559 and has fallen 84.0% since, to $1,368 in 2025.
Across 117 payments — averaging $111.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$2K
- Clearflow Inc.$478
- Abiomed$322
- plus $653 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8,11562%
- Food & beverage$4,85737%
- Education$761%
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) | 27 | $3,666 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 33 | $3,237 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 21 | $3,107 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 4 | $1,585 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $478 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $322 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $119 |
| Abbott | 1 | $91 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 6 | $78 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $76 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $51 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $32 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $20 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Stryker | 1 | $18 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $18 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- CoreValve Evolut$1,752
- Memo4D$1,585
- MICS Instruments$1,585
- Perceval$1,585
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,327
- Tri-Ad$1,230
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,078
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$754
- PleuraFlow$478
- Mosaic$201
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$171
- LOTUS EDGE$119
- Impella$103
How this compares
$13,048 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 127 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Indiana.
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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 Indianapolis
- Marc GerdischIndianapolis$1.4M
- Andrew BarksdaleIndianapolis$158K
- Manesh ParikshakIndianapolis$61K
- Ashish PulikalIndianapolis$36K
- Nakul ValsangkarIndianapolis$33K
- Karen RiegerIndianapolis$28K
- John FehrenbacherIndianapolis$26K
- John BrownIndianapolis$25K
- Vincent NardyIndianapolis$19K
- David HeimansohnIndianapolis$17K
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.