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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $123,557 in general payments to Walter McGregor, MD across 235 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 McGregor, 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 McGregor, 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 McGregor, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1891770137

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.2%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Abbott accounts for 84.6% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $31,329 and has fallen 89.7% since, to $3,237 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in PA 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.

$123,557in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 235 payments — averaging $525.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$104K
Edwards Lifesciences$14K
Atricure, Inc.$4K
Abiomed$401
Medtronic$186
Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$146
plus $745 from 8 others

$591,546in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 245 payments — averaging $2414.47 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.

Abbott$375K
Edwards Lifesciences$217K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$73,13859%
Speaking & faculty fees$10,3138%
Travel & lodging$30,42025%
Food & beverage$9,6878%

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	155	$104,499
Edwards Lifesciences	48	$13,813
Atricure, Inc.	12	$3,768
Abiomed	4	$401
Medtronic	2	$186
Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC	1	$146
Johnson & Johnson	6	$135
Haemonetics Corporation	1	$132
Boston Scientific	1	$117
Artivion, Inc.	1	$117
Davol Inc.	1	$115
Intuitive Surgical	1	$96
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$20
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	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.

MitraClip$57,851
Mitra Clip system$30,580
MitraClip System$11,127
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$3,324
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$3,038
TRICLIP$1,816
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$1,748
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$648
EVOQUE$634
ENDURANT IIS$168
Impella$154
ACC2 CARDIAC CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$139
COBRA FUSION ABLATION SYSTEM$139
TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$132
GENERAL - STENTS$117
AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$117
ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$117
Progel Applicator Spray Tips$115

How this compares

$123,557 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$118,256

Medicare patients

Services billed

206

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
Metoprolol Tartrate	11	$59

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Pittsburgh

Inderpal SarkariaPittsburgh$248K
Benny WekslerPittsburgh$161K
Nicholas BakerPittsburgh$138K
Rajeev DhuparPittsburgh$65K
Robert KormosPittsburgh$53K
David KaczorowskiPittsburgh$47K
Hiroyuki TsukuiPittsburgh$45K
Hiran FernandoPittsburgh$34K
Stephen BaileyPittsburgh$33K
Joseph BavariaAllentown$1.7M

See the full list for Pennsylvania →

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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