Has Wesley Kim, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,894 in general payments to Wesley Kim, MD across 157 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 Wesley Kim, 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 Wesley Kim, 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.

Wesley Kim, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Columbus, OHNPI 1285976597

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.7%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 34.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,395, 2.2 times the $1,549 reported in 2019.

$12,894in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 157 payments — averaging $82.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$4K
Atricure, Inc.$2K
Zimmer Biomet$2K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$1K
Medtronic$1K
plus $1K from 10 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,2009%
Travel & lodging$4,90138%
Food & beverage$6,79353%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Edwards Lifesciences	33	$4,472
Atricure, Inc.	33	$1,720
Zimmer Biomet	13	$1,599
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	12	$1,429
Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.	3	$1,200
Medtronic	43	$1,181
Abiomed	4	$415
Davol Inc.	1	$243
Abbott	1	$176
Johnson & Johnson	8	$153
Bolton Medical Inc	1	$124
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$112
COSA Medical, LLC	1	$27
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$21
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$14
Intuitive Surgical	1	$7

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.

How this compares

$12,894 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$173,453

Medicare patients

150

Services billed

341

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.

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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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