Product Program year 2025 Source: CMS Open Payments

Avalus

Device Heart Valves

PDI 00643169983205

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General payments

$1,218,100

8,919 payments

Research payments

$1,159,047

122 payments

Through program year 2025, $1,218,100 in general payments and $1,159,047 in research payments were reported against Avalus (Heart Valves).

No combined total These are different kinds of money, reported under different rules. A meal and a clinical trial grant do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Amount Payments
2025 General $277,724 1,887
2025 Research $1,134,097 118
2024 General $262,517 1,391
2024 Research $24,950 4
2023 General $202,162 1,756
2022 General $294,595 3,174
2021 General $181,102 711

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $1,218,100 8,919 payments
Top recipients General payments · program year 2025
  1. Andy Kiser Surgery · Pittsburgh, PA $87,404 31% · 24 payments
  2. Michael Moront Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Toledo, OH $17,738 6% · 21 payments
  3. Danny Ramzy Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Houston, TX $8,716 3% · 12 payments
  4. Shinichi Fukuhara Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Ann Arbor, MI $7,442 3% · 6 payments
  5. Barbara Hamilton Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Ann Arbor, MI $6,763 2% · 8 payments

The top 5 of the 100 largest recipients; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2025.

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Specialties paid General payments · program year 2025
  1. Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) $141,104 52% · 461 practitioners
  2. Surgery $91,614 34% · 41 practitioners
  3. Anesthesiology $8,814 3% · 48 practitioners
  4. Physician Assistant, Surgical Physician Assistant $6,295 2% · 55 practitioners
  5. Physician Assistant $6,176 2% · 80 practitioners

The top 5 of 49 specialties; each share is of general payments naming this product to practitioners with a specialty in 2025. Each practitioner is counted under their primary specialty.

The top 25 specialties, free in the app

Where the money went General payments · program year 2025
  1. Pennsylvania $94,265 34% · 66 recipients
  2. Michigan $41,400 15% · 75 recipients
  3. Texas $40,478 15% · 165 recipients
  4. Ohio $32,761 12% · 71 recipients
  5. Florida $11,449 4% · 78 recipients

The top 5 of 46 states; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2025 where a state was reported.

The top 25 states, free in the app

8,919 general · 122 research

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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