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

Scott Ross

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Charleston, SC Medical Doctor

NPI 1164413563 CMS profile 98227

316 Calhoun St, Charleston, SC 29401

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General payments

$12,140

360 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, Scott Ross of Charleston, SC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $12,140 across 360 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 70th 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 $3,072 106
2024 General $1,971 77
2023 General $1,106 51
2022 General $1,014 32
2021 General $523 19
2020 General $1,717 36
2019 General $2,737 39

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Scott Ross were reported at $3,072. 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 Scott Ross Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median Middle half National median
2019 $2,737 $886 $178–$3,167 $163
2020 $1,717 $341 $108–$1,605 $114
2021 $523 $453 $125–$1,886 $132
2022 $1,014 $695 $180–$2,566 $149
2023 $1,106 $745 $205–$2,662 $160
2024 $1,971 $799 $214–$2,967 $164
2025 $3,072 $791 $208–$3,074 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $6,195 223 payments
  2. Atricure, Inc. $2,124 70 payments
  3. Abbott Laboratories $2,027 22 payments
  4. CMS Imaging, Inc. $391 1 payment
  5. Mid-Atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC $298 3 payments
  6. LivaNova USA, Inc. $145 2 payments
  7. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $124 6 payments
  8. Maquet Cardiovascular U.S. Sales, L.L.C. $123 3 payments
  9. Pfizer Inc. $101 5 payments
  10. Scpharmaceuticals Inc. $100 4 payments
  11. Other $513 21 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $9,688 346 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $2,452 14 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Mitra Clip system $1,655 18 payments
  2. Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve $1,602 114 payments
  3. INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve $1,278 7 payments
  4. SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA $670 29 payments
  5. EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX $618 23 payments
  6. EDWARDS INTUITY ELITE VALVE SYSTEM $608 11 payments
  7. EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVE (THV) $579 14 payments
  8. SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM $487 16 payments
  9. EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS $425 11 payments
  10. ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION $360 6 payments
  11. Other $3,361 109 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 · 1 drug

Part D claims

18

Median for Cardiac Surgery: 68

Drug cost

$194

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
Amiodarone Hcl Generic 18 $194

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 · 41 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$258,728

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

231

Average age 76

Services billed

471

78 women, 153 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 66%
Heart failure 63%
Arthritis 53%
Atrial fibrillation 48%
Diabetes 34%
Chronic kidney disease 32%
COPD 20%

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

3 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
VYNDAQEL
  • PFIZER INC. $58
$58 — —
FUROSCIX
  • SCPHARMACEUTICALS INC. $50
$50 — —
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $43
$43 — —

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

360 reported

Every 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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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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