Total Payments
$23,235
2021 Payments
$248.95
Companies
5
Transactions
35
Medicare Patients
108
Medicare Billing
$12,166

Payment Breakdown by Category

Education$21,000 (90.4%)
Food & Beverage$1,489 (6.4%)
Travel$745.30 (3.2%)
Other$0.00 (0.0%)

Payments by Nature

Nature of Payment Amount Transactions Share
Education $21,000 7 90.4%
Food and Beverage $1,489 24 6.4%
Travel and Lodging $745.30 4 3.2%

Top Paying Companies

Company Total Records Latest Year
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $22,199 21 $0 (2021)
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $831.05 8 $0 (2021)
Artivion, Inc. $90.03 2 $0 (2021)
Abbott Laboratories $57.62 3 $0 (2021)
Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $56.95 1 $0 (2017)

Payment History by Year

Year Amount Transactions Top Company
2021 $248.95 6 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation ($110.44)
2020 $160.09 2 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation ($142.86)
2019 $22,769 26 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. ($22,170)
2017 $56.95 1 Medtronic Vascular, Inc. ($56.95)

All Payment Transactions

35 individual payment records from CMS Open Payments — Page 1 of 2

Date Company Product Nature Form Amount Type
09/27/2021 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $72.65 General
09/10/2021 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $28.98 General
Category: SURGERY
08/14/2021 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation INSPIRIS RESILIA AORTIC VALVE (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $37.79 General
Category: Pericardial Heart Valves
06/10/2021 Abbott Laboratories Epic Stented Tissue Valve (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $19.50 General
Category: Structural Heart
05/19/2021 Artivion, Inc. BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE (Device), ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER, PHOTOFIX DECELLULARIZED BOVINE PERICARDIUM Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $12.52 General
Category: Surgical Adhesive
05/18/2021 Artivion, Inc. ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER (Device), CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE, Cardiac non-SynerGraft Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $77.51 General
Category: Cardiovascular surgery
09/09/2020 Abbott Laboratories Epic Stented Tissue Valve (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $17.23 General
Category: Cardiac Arrhythmias and Heart Failure
01/25/2020 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $142.86 General
Category: Pericardial Heart Valves
12/10/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $35.98 General
Category: SURGERY
12/10/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $28.19 General
Category: SURGERY
11/06/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Education In-kind items and services $1,500.00 General
Category: SURGERY
11/01/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Travel and Lodging In-kind items and services $224.09 General
Category: SURGERY
09/18/2019 Abbott Laboratories Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $20.89 General
Category: Cardiac Arrhythmias and Heart Failure
08/06/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $120.50 General
Category: SURGERY
08/06/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $92.17 General
Category: SURGERY
08/06/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $50.10 General
Category: SURGERY
08/06/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $20.27 General
Category: SURGERY
08/06/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $17.27 General
Category: SURGERY
07/18/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Education In-kind items and services $3,000.00 General
Category: SURGERY
07/17/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Education In-kind items and services $3,000.00 General
Category: SURGERY
07/05/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Education In-kind items and services $3,000.00 General
Category: SURGERY
07/03/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Education In-kind items and services $3,000.00 General
Category: SURGERY
07/02/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Education In-kind items and services $3,000.00 General
Category: SURGERY
06/21/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Travel and Lodging In-kind items and services $362.38 General
Category: SURGERY
06/21/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $47.79 General
Category: SURGERY

Medicare Billing by Year

Year Procedures Beneficiaries Services Submitted Medicare Paid
2021 2 68 82 $26,546 $9,890
2020 3 40 42 $6,366 $2,275
Total Patients
108
Total Services
124
Medicare Billing
$12,166
Procedure Codes
7

All Medicare Procedures & Services

7 procedure records from CMS Medicare Utilization

HCPCS Description Setting Year Patients Services Charges Medicare Paid Ratio
99215 Established patient outpatient visit, total time 40-54 minutes Office 2021 24 32 $7,306 $3,499 47.9%
99215 Established patient outpatient visit, total time 40-54 minutes Facility 2021 18 24 $8,112 $2,587 31.9%
99205 New patient outpatient visit, total time 60-74 minutes Office 2021 13 13 $4,862 $1,940 39.9%
99205 New patient outpatient visit, total time 60-74 minutes Facility 2021 13 13 $6,266 $1,864 29.8%
99215 Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes Office 2020 14 15 $3,666 $1,115 30.4%
99203 New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes Office 2020 11 11 $1,602 $655.61 40.9%
99213 Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes Office 2020 15 16 $1,098 $504.08 45.9%

About Dr. David Bull, MD

Dr. David Bull, MD is a Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) healthcare provider based in Springfield, Massachusetts. This provider has been registered with the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) since 10/13/2006. The National Provider Identifier (NPI) number assigned to this provider is 1497845085.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments database, Dr. David Bull, MD has received a total of $23,235 in payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, with $248.95 received in 2021. These payments were reported across 35 transactions from 5 companies. The most common payment nature is "Education" ($21,000).

As a Medicare-enrolled provider, Bull has provided services to 108 Medicare beneficiaries, totaling 124 services with total Medicare billing of $12,166. Data is available for 2 years (2020–2021), covering 7 distinct procedure/service records.

Practice Information

Products in Payments

  • Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) $22,199
  • INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve (Device) $453.19
  • EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system (Device) $267.42
  • ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER (Device) $77.51
  • HeartWare HVAD (Device) $56.95
  • INSPIRIS RESILIA AORTIC VALVE (Device) $37.79
  • Epic Stented Tissue Valve (Device) $36.73
  • Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve (Device) $20.89
  • BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE (Device) $12.52

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 Springfield