Yasir Abu-Omar, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Cleveland, OHNPI 1346872181
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.6%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 37 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 37.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $12,514, more than ten times the $755 reported in 2020.
Across 336 payments — averaging $104.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$13K
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Abbott$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- plus $7K from 31 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $756.00 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.
- Medtronic$2K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,35018%
- Travel & lodging$7,68522%
- Food & beverage$18,40953%
- Education$2,5007%
- 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) | 124 | $12,956 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 16 | $5,082 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 33 | $3,719 |
| Abbott | 34 | $2,535 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 27 | $2,310 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $1,535 |
| Corcym Inc | 7 | $1,347 |
| Abiomed | 15 | $1,050 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $503 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 12 | $453 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 5 | $416 |
| Saphena Medical, Inc. | 2 | $383 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $322 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $272 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $256 |
| Stryker | 4 | $216 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $201 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $200 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $182 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $157 |
| Enablecv Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $108 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $81 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $66 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $53 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $36 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Argentum Medical | 2 | $33 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $23 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 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.
- Simulus$3,878
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,243
- Avalus$1,225
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$1,217
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,081
- STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$1,023
- Perceval$880
- MC3 NAUTILUS(TM) ECMO OXYGENATOR$820
- Impella$763
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$713
- Penditure$582
- Venapax$531
- Epic$530
- Octopus$527
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$504
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$429
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$407
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$369
- Contour 3D$280
How this compares
$34,977 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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
- Alejandro BribriescoCleveland$968K
- Alan Marc GillinovCleveland$926K
- Edward SolteszCleveland$835K
- Salil DeoCleveland$419K
- Tomislav MihaljevicCleveland$387K
- Christopher ToweCleveland$370K
- Eric RoselliCleveland$253K
- Cristian BaezaCleveland$237K
- Zhen-Yu TongCleveland$222K
- Sudish MurthyCleveland$120K
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.