Has Walter Hargrove, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $48,513 in general payments to Walter Hargrove, MD across 144 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 Walter Hargrove, 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 Walter Hargrove, 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.

Walter Hargrove, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Doylestown, PANPI 1437180122

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $36,250 of the $48,513 with a category attached, or 74.7%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 91.2% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $21,918 and has fallen 91.4% since, to $1,883 in 2025.

$48,513in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 144 payments — averaging $336.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$44K
Abbott$2K
Medtronic$668
Abiomed$376
Edwards Lifesciences$330
Artivion, Inc.$167
plus $352 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$36,25075%
Travel & lodging$2,7496%
Food & beverage$9,51520%

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
Atricure, Inc.	89	$44,231
Abbott	26	$2,389
Medtronic(2 entities)	9	$668
Abiomed	4	$376
Edwards Lifesciences	4	$330
Artivion, Inc.	2	$167
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	2	$108
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$102
Teleflex LLC	2	$67
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$33
Smith+Nephew	2	$28
Eclipse Technology Solutions Inc.	1	$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.

SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$28,337
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$11,883
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$11,000
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$828
Epic$747
Epic Stented Tissue Valve$726
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$698
ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$398
Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$284
Intraclude Device$159
CoreValve Evolut$143
ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$142
Impella$141
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$128
Cardiac non-SynerGraft$117
ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$111
PORTICO$108
Mosaic$106
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$106
Perceval$102

How this compares

$48,513 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$52,436

Medicare patients

Services billed

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 Doylestown

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

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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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