Who Paid My Doc
Brian Bethea
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Delray Beach, FL Medical Doctor
NPI 1417002908 CMS profile 200343
4205 W Atlantic Ave, Bldg B Suite 201, Delray Beach, FL 33445
General payments
$329,557
Research payments
$65,943
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$1,456,718
Through program year 2025, Brian Bethea of Delray Beach, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $329,557 across 393 general payments and $65,943 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $1,456,718 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 98th percentile of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
8 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $509 | 13 | |
| 2024 | General | $52,659 | 33 | |
| 2023 | General | $61,283 | 27 | |
| 2022 | General | $30,569 | 40 | |
| 2021 | General | $67,815 | 58 | |
| 2020 | General | $61,108 | 74 | |
| 2019 | General | $55,613 | 148 | |
| 2019 | Research | $65,943 | 17 |
Beside peers
- Brian Bethea
- Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median
- Middle half of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Brian Bethea were reported at $509. 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.
Show as a table
| Year | Brian Bethea | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $55,613 | $886 | $178–$3,167 | $163 |
| 2020 | $61,108 | $341 | $108–$1,605 | $114 |
| 2021 | $67,815 | $453 | $125–$1,886 | $132 |
| 2022 | $30,569 | $695 | $180–$2,566 | $149 |
| 2023 | $61,283 | $745 | $205–$2,662 | $160 |
| 2024 | $52,659 | $799 | $214–$2,967 | $164 |
| 2025 | $509 | $791 | $208–$3,074 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 3 drugsPart D claims
36
Drug cost
$271
Branded share of claims
30.6%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | Generic | 14 | $127 | |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | Generic | 11 | $72 | |
| Clopidogrel Clopidogrel Bisulfate | Brand | 11 | $71 |
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 411 Part D prescribers listed as Cardiac Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 42 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$308,362
Medicare patients
262
Services billed
622
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 59% | |
| Heart failure | 57% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 56% | |
| Diabetes | 45% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 35% | |
| COPD | 28% |
Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.
Records
410 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
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.