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

Ray Blackwell

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Newark, DE Medical Doctor

NPI 1033200084 CMS profile 228461

4755 Ogletown Stanton Rd, Suite 1E50, Newark, DE 19718

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General payments

$4,057

63 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, Ray Blackwell of Newark, DE is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,057 across 63 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 46th percentile of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $641 20
2024 General $364 17
2023 General $2,356 15
2022 General $127 1
2021 General $81 2
2019 General $488 8

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Ray Blackwell were reported at $641. 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 Ray Blackwell Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median Middle half National median
2019 $488 $886 $178–$3,167 $163
2020 $0 $341 $108–$1,605 $114
2021 $81 $453 $125–$1,886 $132
2022 $127 $695 $180–$2,566 $149
2023 $2,356 $745 $205–$2,662 $160
2024 $364 $799 $214–$2,967 $164
2025 $641 $791 $208–$3,074 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. CryoLife, Inc. $2,381 14 payments
  2. Abiomed $513 24 payments
  3. Abbott Laboratories $488 8 payments
  4. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $344 6 payments
  5. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $100 1 payment
  6. Maquet Cardiovascular U.S. Sales, L.L.C. $84 3 payments
  7. Becton, Dickinson and Company $40 2 payments
  8. Ethicon US, LLC $38 2 payments
  9. Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. $29 1 payment
  10. Baxter Healthcare $26 1 payment
  11. Other $14 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $2,157 55 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $1,899 8 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Cardiac non-SynerGraft $2,058 11 payments
  2. Impella $276 10 payments
  3. THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT Heart failure $200 5 payments
  4. EVOQUE $188 2 payments
  5. THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT Structural Heart $135 1 payment
  6. MITRACLIP $127 1 payment
  7. Avalus $100 1 payment
  8. Cardiohelp $54 1 payment
  9. AVITENE $40 2 payments
  10. STRATAFIX $38 2 payments
  11. Other $249 13 payments

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

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 36 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$120,405

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

123

Average age 73

Services billed

283

50 women, 73 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 54%
Diabetes 49%
Heart failure 49%
Arthritis 48%
Chronic kidney disease 39%
Depression 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

63 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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