Has Zainulabdeen Al Rstum, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,770 in general payments to Zainulabdeen Al Rstum, MD across 92 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 Zainulabdeen Al Rstum, 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 Zainulabdeen Al Rstum, 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.

Zainulabdeen Al Rstum, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Tampa, FLNPI 1548662174

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,770in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 92 payments — averaging $106.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$3K
Silk Road Medical, Inc.$2K
Abiomed$1K
Edwards Lifesciences$1K
Artivion, Inc.$564
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$444
plus $2K from 12 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,23333%
Food & beverage$6,53767%

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
Atricure, Inc.	29	$2,824
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	10	$1,666
Abiomed	15	$1,240
Edwards Lifesciences	6	$1,122
Artivion, Inc.	3	$564
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	5	$444
Medtronic	6	$369
Endologix LLC	2	$287
Heartflow, Inc.	2	$254
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	2	$200
Baxter Healthcare	2	$176
Abbott	1	$169
Cook Medical LLC	1	$125
Zimmer Biomet	2	$119
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	1	$87
Johnson & Johnson	3	$73
Smith+Nephew	1	$29
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$24

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.

SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,710
ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,413
ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$1,413
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$852
Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring$780
ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$564
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$558
FFRct$254
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$216
GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$184
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$169
Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$152
COSEAL$147
Impella$145
Penditure$136
Cook$125
GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$118
STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$108
HawkOne$106

How this compares

$9,770 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$86,845

Medicare patients

111

Services billed

187

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
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	15	$44

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Tampa

Andrew ShermanTampa$1.6M
Jacques FontaineTampa$632K
Lucian LozonschiTampa$574K
Narendra SastryTampa$119K
Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
Thomas BeaverGainesville$1.9M
Brian BetheaDelray Beach$1.8M
Joshua RovinClearwater$1.7M
Kevin AccolaOrlando$1.7M
Abelardo VargasSunny Isles Beach$1.1M

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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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