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

Walter McGregor

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Pittsburgh, PA Medical Doctor

NPI 1891770137 CMS profile 267605

320 E North Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15212

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General payments

$123,557

235 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

$591,546 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Walter McGregor of Pittsburgh, PA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $123,557 across 235 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $591,546 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 95th 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 $3,237 21
2024 General $22,364 46
2023 General $19,109 39
2022 General $31,329 46
2021 General $15,362 26
2020 General $6,685 13
2019 General $25,472 44

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Walter McGregor were reported at $3,237. 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 Walter McGregor Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median Middle half National median
2019 $25,472 $886 $178–$3,167 $163
2020 $6,685 $341 $108–$1,605 $114
2021 $15,362 $453 $125–$1,886 $132
2022 $31,329 $695 $180–$2,566 $149
2023 $19,109 $745 $205–$2,662 $160
2024 $22,364 $799 $214–$2,967 $164
2025 $3,237 $791 $208–$3,074 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Abbott Laboratories $104,499 155 payments
  2. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $13,813 48 payments
  3. Atricure, Inc. $3,768 12 payments
  4. Abiomed $401 4 payments
  5. Medtronic, Inc. $186 2 payments
  6. Mid-Atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC $146 1 payment
  7. Ethicon US, LLC $135 6 payments
  8. Haemonetics Corporation $132 1 payment
  9. Boston Scientific Corporation $117 1 payment
  10. CryoLife, Inc. $117 1 payment
  11. Other $244 4 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $73,138 12 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $30,420 67 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $9,687 151 payments
  4. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $6,688 3 payments
  5. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $2,625 1 payment
  6. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $1,000 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Mitra Clip system $31,305 42 payments
  2. MITRACLIP Structural Heart $31,208 42 payments
  3. MITRACLIP Vascular $27,878 27 payments
  4. MitraClip System $11,205 11 payments
  5. SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM $3,511 8 payments
  6. AtriCure cryoICE cryoSPHERE Cryoablation System $3,038 3 payments
  7. MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve $1,917 11 payments
  8. TRICLIP $1,832 4 payments
  9. EVOQUE $814 7 payments
  10. EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVE (THV) $756 5 payments
  11. Other $2,817 55 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

11

Median for Thoracic Surgery: 42

Drug cost

$59

Median for Thoracic Surgery: $318

Branded share of claims

0%

Median for Thoracic Surgery: 0%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Metoprolol Tartrate Generic 11 $59

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 910 Part D prescribers listed as Thoracic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 39 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$94,029

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

95

Average age 75

Services billed

206

48 women, 47 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%
Heart failure 73%
Ischemic heart disease 66%
Atrial fibrillation 54%
Arthritis 44%
Chronic kidney disease 34%
COPD 31%
Diabetes 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

235 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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