Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Behzad Soleimani

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Hershey, PA Medical Doctor

NPI 1174856330 CMS profile 234614

500 University Dr, Hershey, PA 17033

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General payments

$23,785

173 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$101,930 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2022

Through program year 2025, Behzad Soleimani of Hershey, PA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $23,785 across 173 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $101,930 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 82nd percentile of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,389 24
2024 General $992 19
2023 General $1,566 23
2022 General $6,216 33
2021 General $664 18
2020 General $1,932 27
2019 General $11,026 29

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Behzad Soleimani
  • Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median
  • Middle half of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Behzad Soleimani were reported at $1,389. Among 4,073 Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) profiles paid that year, the median was $791 and the middle half received between $208 and $3,074.

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Year Behzad Soleimani Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median Middle half National median
2019 $11,026 $886 $178–$3,167 $163
2020 $1,932 $341 $108–$1,605 $114
2021 $664 $453 $125–$1,886 $132
2022 $6,216 $695 $180–$2,566 $149
2023 $1,566 $745 $205–$2,662 $160
2024 $992 $799 $214–$2,967 $164
2025 $1,389 $791 $208–$3,074 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Abbott Laboratories $9,446 27 payments
  2. Atricure, Inc. $7,344 100 payments
  3. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $5,778 23 payments
  4. Medtronic, Inc. $348 10 payments
  5. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $265 2 payments
  6. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. $250 1 payment
  7. Abiomed $246 3 payments
  8. Maquet Cardiovascular U.S. Sales, L.L.C. $42 3 payments
  9. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $39 1 payment
  10. Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $17 1 payment
  11. Other $10 2 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $10,330 8 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $8,372 151 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $5,083 14 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT $4,756 14 payments
  2. HeartWare HVAD $4,079 3 payments
  3. HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev $3,399 5 payments
  4. Tri-Ad $1,395 9 payments
  5. ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM $1,225 24 payments
  6. ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2) $1,040 19 payments
  7. SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM $966 16 payments
  8. AtriCure cryoICE cryoSPHERE Cryoablation System $775 16 payments
  9. CARDIOMEMS $749 3 payments
  10. ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM $736 8 payments
  11. Other $2,288 50 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Records

173 reported

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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