Yakov Elgudin, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Cleveland, OHNPI 1730107996
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 217 payments — averaging $81.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Abbott$4K
- Bolton Medical Inc$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Artivion, Inc.$1K
- plus $3K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,5759%
- Travel & lodging$3,08318%
- Food & beverage$12,89173%
- Entertainment$330%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 70 | $4,309 |
| Abbott | 32 | $3,988 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 16 | $2,114 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 14 | $1,592 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 17 | $1,425 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 10 | $1,024 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $613 |
| Abiomed | 9 | $479 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $381 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $264 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $207 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $159 |
| Enablecv Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $120 |
| Corcym Inc | 5 | $119 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $108 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $99 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $67 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Stryker | 2 | $41 |
| Argentum Medical | 2 | $33 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $26 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $18 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $16 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $13 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$1,575
- Mitra Clip system$1,112
- Avalus$952
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$778
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$725
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$594
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$594
- Octopus$538
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$492
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$488
- Freestyle$401
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$378
- Relay Grafts$287
- Contour 3D$280
- Impella$258
- CoreValve Evolut$251
- Cook$246
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$229
- Quantra QPlus System$216
- EVOQUE$202
How this compares
$17,582 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
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 Cleveland
- Edward SolteszCleveland$1.2M
- Alan Marc GillinovCleveland$1M
- Alejandro BribriescoCleveland$968K
- Alan MarkowitzCleveland$951K
- Eric RoselliCleveland$933K
- Cristian BaezaCleveland$464K
- Salil DeoCleveland$419K
- Tomislav MihaljevicCleveland$387K
- Christopher ToweCleveland$370K
- Zhen-Yu TongCleveland$269K
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.