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

Robert Hooker

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Grand Rapids, MI Medical Doctor

NPI 1265405765 CMS profile 11333

221 Michigan St Ne Ste 300, Ste 760, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

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General payments

$51,587

136 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

$36,283 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2020

Through program year 2025, Robert Hooker of Grand Rapids, MI is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $51,587 across 136 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $36,283 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 90th 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 $2,969 17
2024 General $12,444 20
2023 General $29,946 21
2022 General $2,659 34
2021 General $1,061 16
2020 General $487 13
2019 General $2,021 15

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Robert Hooker were reported at $2,969. 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 Robert Hooker Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median Middle half National median
2019 $2,021 $886 $178–$3,167 $163
2020 $487 $341 $108–$1,605 $114
2021 $1,061 $453 $125–$1,886 $132
2022 $2,659 $695 $180–$2,566 $149
2023 $29,946 $745 $205–$2,662 $160
2024 $12,444 $799 $214–$2,967 $164
2025 $2,969 $791 $208–$3,074 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Paragonix Technologies, Inc. $37,500 8 payments
  2. TransMedics, Inc. $4,950 4 payments
  3. Abbott Laboratories $2,905 37 payments
  4. Abiomed $2,708 32 payments
  5. Michigan Critical Care Consultants, Inc. $1,474 2 payments
  6. Aziyo Biologics, Inc. $372 5 payments
  7. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $349 4 payments
  8. Atricure, Inc. $299 6 payments
  9. Becton, Dickinson and Company $142 1 payment
  10. CVRx, Inc. $111 1 payment
  11. Other $777 36 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $37,500 8 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $7,146 117 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $6,942 11 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. SherpaCool Box $29,500 6 payments
  2. Paragonix SherpaPak Cardiac Transport System $29,500 6 payments
  3. CTS Canister Box $29,500 6 payments
  4. ORGAN CARE SYSTEM $4,950 4 payments
  5. Impella $2,502 29 payments
  6. Crescent cannula $1,474 2 payments
  7. Soft Flow cannula $1,474 2 payments
  8. THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT Heart failure $1,257 11 payments
  9. THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT Structural Heart $922 11 payments
  10. ECM Patch,Pouch $372 5 payments
  11. Other $3,004 75 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 · 47 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$80,965

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

47

Average age 66

Services billed

144

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%
Heart failure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 74%
Atrial fibrillation 68%
Chronic kidney disease 57%
Diabetes 53%
COPD 40%
Arthritis 36%

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
ENTRESTO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $19
$19 — —
XARELTO
  • Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $18
$18 — —

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

136 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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

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