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

Walter Ohara

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1376541789 CMS profile 288582

6550 Fannin St, Suite 1401, Houston, TX 77030

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General payments

$9,676

153 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, Walter Ohara of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $9,676 across 153 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 66th 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 $1,490 31
2024 General $1,198 26
2023 General $3,141 25
2022 General $1,739 20
2021 General $518 11
2020 General $509 10
2019 General $1,081 30

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Walter Ohara were reported at $1,490. 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 Ohara Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median Middle half National median
2019 $1,081 $886 $178–$3,167 $163
2020 $509 $341 $108–$1,605 $114
2021 $518 $453 $125–$1,886 $132
2022 $1,739 $695 $180–$2,566 $149
2023 $3,141 $745 $205–$2,662 $160
2024 $1,198 $799 $214–$2,967 $164
2025 $1,490 $791 $208–$3,074 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $1,746 11 payments
  2. Abbott Laboratories $1,434 14 payments
  3. Atricure, Inc. $1,272 17 payments
  4. Abiomed $1,195 16 payments
  5. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $892 7 payments
  6. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $471 5 payments
  7. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $439 21 payments
  8. Pfizer Inc. $251 14 payments
  9. AngioDynamics, Inc. $249 2 payments
  10. Baxter Healthcare $244 2 payments
  11. Other $1,485 44 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $7,640 142 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $2,036 11 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. COREVALVE EVOLUT R $1,619 10 payments
  2. Da Vinci Surgical System $892 7 payments
  3. ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM $879 8 payments
  4. Impella $812 10 payments
  5. EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX $625 8 payments
  6. LifeVest $439 21 payments
  7. SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM $348 4 payments
  8. MITRACLIP $329 4 payments
  9. ELIQUIS $251 14 payments
  10. AtriCure cryoICE cryoSPHERE Cryoablation System $237 4 payments
  11. Other $4,178 82 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 · 25 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$40,905

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

44

Average age 76

Services billed

98

19 women, 25 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%
Arthritis 64%
Diabetes 57%
Atrial fibrillation 52%
Chronic kidney disease 50%
Heart failure 48%

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

153 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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