Total Payments
$84,895
2024 Payments
$4,821
Companies
11
Transactions
127
Medicare Patients
158
Medicare Billing
$44,293

Payment Breakdown by Category

Education$52,716 (62.1%)
Other$23,000 (27.1%)
Food & Beverage$5,527 (6.5%)
Travel$3,625 (4.3%)
Gifts$26.56 (0.0%)

Payments by Nature

Nature of Payment Amount Transactions Share
Education $52,716 19 62.1%
Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $23,000 8 27.1%
Food and Beverage $5,527 83 6.5%
Travel and Lodging $3,625 16 4.3%
Gift $26.56 1 0.0%

Top Paying Companies

Company Total Records Latest Year
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $82,470 89 $0 (2024)
Abbott Laboratories $814.45 12 $0 (2020)
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $722.01 15 $0 (2022)
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. $414.39 2 $0 (2020)
AtriCure, Inc. $129.01 1 $0 (2019)
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $116.53 1 $0 (2017)
Getinge USA Sales, LLC $99.72 3 $0 (2024)
The Spectranetics Corporation $67.19 1 $0 (2017)
ABIOMED $22.45 1 $0 (2023)
CSL Behring $20.00 1 $0 (2023)

Payment History by Year

Year Amount Transactions Top Company
2024 $4,821 9 INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. ($4,739)
2023 $4,505 8 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. ($4,463)
2022 $13,287 17 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. ($13,130)
2021 $3,094 6 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. ($3,076)
2020 $72.00 3 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. ($40.81)
2019 $2,375 8 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. ($2,185)
2018 $33,375 26 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. ($32,740)
2017 $23,366 50 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. ($22,097)

All Payment Transactions

127 individual payment records from CMS Open Payments — Page 1 of 6

Date Company Product Nature Form Amount Type
11/01/2024 INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Education Cash or cash equivalent $4,000.00 General
Category: SURGERY
11/01/2024 INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $150.00 General
Category: SURGERY
07/09/2024 INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $67.36 General
Category: SURGERY
06/26/2024 Getinge USA Sales, LLC HeartString III Proximal Seal (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $42.04 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
04/26/2024 Getinge USA Sales, LLC Vasoview Hemopro 2 (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $39.42 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
03/26/2024 INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $43.75 General
Category: SURGERY
02/27/2024 INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $100.00 General
Category: SURGERY
01/26/2024 INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Travel and Lodging In-kind items and services $358.97 General
Category: SURGERY
01/26/2024 INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Travel and Lodging In-kind items and services $19.00 General
Category: SURGERY
11/29/2023 CSL Behring Kcentra (Biological) Education In-kind items and services $20.00 General
Category: Trauma (Emergency, Injury, Surgery)
11/17/2023 ABIOMED Impella (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $22.45 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
10/10/2023 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $92.59 General
Category: SURGERY
10/06/2023 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Education Cash or cash equivalent $4,000.00 General
Category: SURGERY
10/06/2023 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $150.00 General
Category: SURGERY
07/04/2023 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $98.33 General
Category: SURGERY
06/27/2023 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Gift In-kind items and services $26.56 General
Category: SURGERY
01/17/2023 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $95.20 General
Category: SURGERY
11/22/2022 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $111.89 General
Category: SURGERY
11/16/2022 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $3.15 General
Category: Pericardial Heart Valves
10/11/2022 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $99.31 General
Category: SURGERY
05/17/2022 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $153.71 General
Category: Pericardial Heart Valves
05/06/2022 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program Cash or cash equivalent $3,000.00 General
Category: SURGERY
05/06/2022 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $150.00 General
Category: SURGERY
04/12/2022 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $104.09 General
Category: SURGERY
03/30/2022 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. DA VINCI SP (Device) Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program Cash or cash equivalent $3,000.00 General
Category: SURGERY

Medicare Billing by Year

Year Procedures Beneficiaries Services Submitted Medicare Paid
2023 4 53 54 $70,029 $17,948
2022 3 50 50 $84,720 $21,209
2021 2 31 31 $12,663 $3,326
2020 2 24 24 $6,770 $1,810
Total Patients
158
Total Services
159
Medicare Billing
$44,293
Procedure Codes
11

All Medicare Procedures & Services

11 procedure records from CMS Medicare Utilization

HCPCS Description Setting Year Patients Services Charges Medicare Paid Ratio
32663 Exam of lung with removal of lung lobe using an endoscope Facility 2023 11 11 $47,080 $12,095 25.7%
99204 New patient office or other outpatient visit, 45-59 minutes Office 2023 17 17 $8,959 $2,395 26.7%
32674 Removal of lymph nodes of chest cavity using an endoscope Facility 2023 13 13 $8,480 $2,145 25.3%
99222 Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making, if using time, at least 55 minutes Facility 2023 12 13 $5,510 $1,313 23.8%
32663 Exam of lung with removal of lung lobe using an endoscope Facility 2022 15 15 $64,440 $16,176 25.1%
99204 New patient office or other outpatient visit, 45-59 minutes Office 2022 20 20 $10,440 $2,582 24.7%
32674 Removal of lymph nodes of chest cavity using an endoscope Facility 2022 15 15 $9,840 $2,450 24.9%
99204 New patient outpatient visit, total time 45-59 minutes Office 2021 14 14 $7,308 $1,901 26.0%
99221 Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 30 minutes per day Facility 2021 17 17 $5,355 $1,425 26.6%
99203 New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes Office 2020 11 11 $3,806 $1,020 26.8%
99232 Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day Facility 2020 13 13 $2,964 $790.23 26.7%

About Craig Larson

Craig Larson is a Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) healthcare provider based in San Diego, California. This provider has been registered with the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) since 03/21/2007. The National Provider Identifier (NPI) number assigned to this provider is 1528183928.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments database, Craig Larson has received a total of $84,895 in payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, with $4,821 received in 2024. These payments were reported across 127 transactions from 11 companies. The most common payment nature is "Education" ($52,716).

As a Medicare-enrolled provider, Larson has provided services to 158 Medicare beneficiaries, totaling 159 services with total Medicare billing of $44,293. Data is available for 4 years (2020–2023), covering 11 distinct procedure/service records.

Practice Information

Products in Payments

  • Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) $79,320
  • DA VINCI SP (Device) $3,150
  • Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve (Device) $550.81
  • EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis (Device) $395.63
  • Circulatory Support (Device) $388.40
  • CRT-Ds (Device) $222.15
  • Aortic and Mitral Tissue Stented (Device) $160.16
  • MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve (Device) $156.86
  • ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION (Device) $129.01
  • XARELTO (Drug) $116.53
  • BALLOON BRIDGE (Device) $67.19
  • Vasoview Hemopro 2 (Device) $57.68
  • HeartString III Proximal Seal (Device) $42.04
  • HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev (Device) $24.86
  • Impella (Device) $22.45
  • Kcentra (Biological) $20.00
  • SternaLock 360 (Device) $19.00
  • HeartMate (Device) $18.88
  • TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis (Device) $18.76
  • Carpentier-Edwards Physio Annuloplasty Ring (Device) $7.62

Data Sources

Provider data from NPPES. Payment data from CMS Open Payments. Medicare data from CMS Medicare Provider Utilization. All data is public and updated periodically.

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Doctors in San Diego