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

Geoffrey Answini

Vascular Surgery Cincinnati, OH Medical Doctor

NPI 1043297831 CMS profile 92091

2123 Auburn Ave, Su. 139, Cincinnati, OH 45219

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General payments

$65,435

312 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$16,500

Paid to them · 8 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$361,623 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Geoffrey Answini of Cincinnati, OH is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $65,435 across 312 general payments and $16,500 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $361,623 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 94th percentile of Vascular Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

9 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $28,947 69
2024 General $8,426 69
2024 Research $8,400 4
2023 General $2,123 27
2023 Research $8,100 4
2022 General $4,804 45
2021 General $2,475 23
2020 General $10,451 32
2019 General $8,208 47

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Geoffrey Answini
  • Vascular Surgery median
  • Middle half of Vascular Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Geoffrey Answini were reported at $28,947. Among 3,991 Vascular Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $924 and the middle half received between $273 and $2,636.

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Year Geoffrey Answini Vascular Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $8,208 $796 $226–$2,363 $163
2020 $10,451 $348 $118–$1,110 $114
2021 $2,475 $471 $158–$1,421 $132
2022 $4,804 $725 $222–$2,183 $149
2023 $2,123 $836 $257–$2,440 $160
2024 $8,426 $909 $252–$2,619 $164
2025 $28,947 $924 $273–$2,636 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $23,215 60 payments
  2. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $15,492 43 payments
  3. CryoLife, Inc. $6,225 21 payments
  4. Abiomed $4,462 21 payments
  5. Bolton Medical Inc $3,687 34 payments
  6. Atricure, Inc. $3,286 43 payments
  7. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. $2,434 13 payments
  8. Abbott Laboratories $2,343 26 payments
  9. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $1,963 24 payments
  10. Ethicon Inc. $866 3 payments
  11. Other $1,462 24 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $19,520 7 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $17,400 8 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $15,241 244 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $12,824 49 payments
  5. Long term medical supply or device loan $411 1 payment
  6. Education $40 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Valiant Captivia $10,420 3 payments
  2. ENDURANT IIS $10,319 28 payments
  3. Valiant Navion $7,797 5 payments
  4. Endurant $5,641 13 payments
  5. AMDS-Ascyrus Medical $3,277 6 payments
  6. GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis $2,322 7 payments
  7. TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM $1,930 15 payments
  8. Cardiac non-SynerGraft $1,610 8 payments
  9. EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX $1,546 9 payments
  10. THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT $1,059 12 payments
  11. Other $12,062 171 payments

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

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. CryoLife, Inc. $16,500 8 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 2 drugs

Part D claims

24

Median for Cardiac Surgery: 68

Drug cost

$197

Median for Cardiac Surgery: $445

Branded share of claims

50%

Median for Cardiac Surgery: 15.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Clopidogrel Clopidogrel Bisulfate Brand 12 $185
Metoprolol Tartrate Generic 12 $11

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 · 80 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$147,275

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

200

Average age 75

Services billed

393

81 women, 119 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 75%
Atrial fibrillation 53%
Heart failure 50%
Arthritis 47%
Chronic kidney disease 42%
Diabetes 31%
COPD 29%

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.

Payments and prescribing

2 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
CLEVIPREX
  • CHIESI USA, INC. $8
$8 — —
KENGREAL
  • CHIESI USA, INC. $8
$8 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

320 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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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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