Has Yuji Kawano, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $62,567 in general payments to Yuji Kawano, MD across 174 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 Yuji Kawano, 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 Yuji Kawano, 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.

Yuji Kawano, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Boston, MANPI 1952876781

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (42.6%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 34.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $29,455, more than ten times the $960 reported in 2019. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in MA 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.

$62,567in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 174 payments — averaging $359.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$22K
Intuitive Surgical$17K
Baxter Healthcare$9K
Enablecv Inc.$8K
Atricure, Inc.$3K
Medtronic$2K
plus $2K from 6 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$26,65543%
Travel & lodging$15,51625%
Food & beverage$7,78412%
Education$12,61320%

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	54	$21,806
Intuitive Surgical	34	$17,024
Baxter Healthcare	12	$8,737
Enablecv Inc.	12	$7,548
Atricure, Inc.	19	$3,176
Medtronic	23	$2,253
Corcym Inc	11	$1,527
Boston Scientific	1	$165
Abiomed	3	$152
Jenavalve Technology, Inc.	1	$94
Angiodynamics, Inc.	3	$69
Johnson & Johnson	1	$17

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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$16,190
THRUPORT SYSTEMS INTRACLUDE INTRA-AORTIC OCCLUSION DEVICE$10,628
ARTISS$7,875
ACTIFUSE$7,773
ADEPT$7,773
CELSTAT$7,773
ALTAPORE$7,773
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$2,227
Perceval$1,308
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,203
Avalus$739
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$640
Mosaic$527
FLOSEAL$405
Octopus$247
Simulus$188
WATCHMAN Access System$165
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$154
Renal - Acute$133
Penditure$133

How this compares

$62,567 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 171 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$162,722

Medicare patients

Services billed

190

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
Warfarin Sodium	13	$30

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Boston

Lana Schumacher BealBoston$254K
Sidney LevitskyBoston$248K
Robert ThurerBoston$229K
Margaret MarshallBoston$122K
Pedro del NidoBoston$119K
Akinobu ItohBoston$102K
Amy HackmannBoston$80K
Nathaniel LangerBoston$79K
David DalessandroBoston$77K
Joren MadsenBoston$65K

See the full list for Massachusetts →

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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