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

Ghulam Murtaza

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Madison, WI Medical Doctor

NPI 1528294329 CMS profile 463843

700 S Park St, Madison, WI 53715

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General payments

$106,159

134 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Ghulam Murtaza of Madison, WI is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $106,159 across 134 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 94th 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 $89,565 77
2024 General $11,412 21
2023 General $314 2
2022 General $465 6
2021 General $141 5
2020 General $47 1
2019 General $4,215 22

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Ghulam Murtaza were reported at $89,565. 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 Ghulam Murtaza Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median Middle half National median
2019 $4,215 $886 $178–$3,167 $163
2020 $47 $341 $108–$1,605 $114
2021 $141 $453 $125–$1,886 $132
2022 $465 $695 $180–$2,566 $149
2023 $314 $745 $205–$2,662 $160
2024 $11,412 $799 $214–$2,967 $164
2025 $89,565 $791 $208–$3,074 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $97,843 74 payments
  2. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $4,146 18 payments
  3. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $1,031 6 payments
  4. Abiomed $688 7 payments
  5. Davol Inc. $665 6 payments
  6. Atricure, Inc. $657 7 payments
  7. CryoLife, Inc. $361 4 payments
  8. C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries $303 1 payment
  9. Medtronic, Inc. $147 2 payments
  10. Chiesi USA, Inc. $105 3 payments
  11. Other $213 6 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Education $77,300 15 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $15,561 64 payments
  3. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $8,000 1 payment
  4. Food and Beverage $5,198 52 payments
  5. Gift $100 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Da Vinci Surgical System $97,843 74 payments
  2. Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve $2,046 6 payments
  3. RibFix Blu $986 4 payments
  4. PROGEL $968 7 payments
  5. AtriCure cryoICE cryoSPHERE Cryoablation System $498 5 payments
  6. ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER $361 4 payments
  7. ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM $314 2 payments
  8. SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM $254 3 payments
  9. MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve $215 3 payments
  10. Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve $180 3 payments
  11. Other $511 17 payments

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 · 2 drugs

Part D claims

75

Median for Cardiac Surgery: 68

Drug cost

$792

Median for Cardiac Surgery: $445

Branded share of claims

0%

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
Warfarin Sodium Generic 59 $663
Mupirocin Generic 16 $128

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 · 48 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$190,232

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

220

Average age 75

Services billed

591

99 women, 121 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 64%
Atrial fibrillation 44%
Heart failure 39%
Diabetes 38%
Arthritis 31%
Chronic kidney disease 26%
Cancer 25%

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

134 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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