Total Payments
$160,421
2024 Payments
$1,372
Companies
16
Transactions
341
Medicare Patients
189
Medicare Billing
$116,055

Payment Breakdown by Category

Consulting$90,624 (56.5%)
Travel$29,767 (18.6%)
Other$20,244 (12.6%)
Food & Beverage$19,786 (12.3%)

Payments by Nature

Nature of Payment Amount Transactions Share
Consulting Fee $90,624 36 56.5%
Travel and Lodging $29,767 19 18.6%
Food and Beverage $19,786 279 12.3%
Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $10,500 1 6.5%
Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $9,744 6 6.1%

Top Paying Companies

Company Total Records Latest Year
Abbott Laboratories $70,061 134 $0 (2024)
LSI SOLUTIONS INC $62,462 13 $0 (2020)
Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $23,174 120 $0 (2020)
Medtronic, Inc. $1,096 15 $0 (2024)
ATRICURE, INC. $990.79 16 $0 (2024)
ABIOMED $817.32 11 $0 (2024)
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $726.24 9 $0 (2022)
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $689.91 9 $0 (2023)
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $185.73 4 $0 (2023)
ABBVIE INC. $55.49 3 $0 (2024)

Payment History by Year

Year Amount Transactions Top Company
2024 $1,372 22 Abbott Laboratories ($428.19)
2023 $2,133 31 Abbott Laboratories ($782.76)
2022 $7,884 26 Abbott Laboratories ($6,974)
2021 $7,254 23 Abbott Laboratories ($6,080)
2020 $12,185 21 Abbott Laboratories ($11,830)
2019 $39,572 94 Medtronic Vascular, Inc. ($14,167)
2018 $56,628 63 LSI SOLUTIONS INC ($33,084)
2017 $33,393 61 LSI SOLUTIONS INC ($15,631)

All Payment Transactions

341 individual payment records from CMS Open Payments — Page 1 of 14

Date Company Product Nature Form Amount Type
11/09/2024 ATRICURE, INC. ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $120.75 General
Category: CARDIOVASCULAR
09/30/2024 Bolton Medical Inc RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $27.05 General
Category: ENDOVASCULAR AORTIC REPAIR
08/27/2024 Abbott Laboratories EPIC (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $20.12 General
Category: Structural Heart
08/05/2024 ATRICURE, INC. ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $3.60 General
Category: CARDIOVASCULAR
07/16/2024 ATRICURE, INC. ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $159.16 General
Category: CARDIOVASCULAR
06/28/2024 ATRICURE, INC. ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $31.99 General
Category: CARDIOVASCULAR
06/11/2024 Abbott Laboratories EPIC (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $18.59 General
Category: Structural Heart
06/11/2024 Abbott Laboratories EPIC (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $11.32 General
Category: Structural Heart
05/22/2024 Abbott Laboratories NAVITOR (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $124.52 General
Category: Vascular
05/09/2024 ATRICURE, INC. ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $15.80 General
Category: CARDIOVASCULAR
05/07/2024 ABBVIE INC. ALLODERM (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $16.94 General
Category: PLASTIC SURGERY
05/04/2024 Medtronic, Inc. COREVALVE EVOLUT R (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $28.21 General
Category: Transcatheter Valve Systems
05/03/2024 Medtronic, Inc. COREVALVE EVOLUT R (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $133.18 General
Category: Transcatheter Valve Systems
05/03/2024 Medtronic, Inc. COREVALVE EVOLUT R (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $15.84 General
Category: Transcatheter Valve Systems
05/02/2024 Medtronic, Inc. COREVALVE EVOLUT R (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $32.29 General
Category: Transcatheter Valve Systems
04/25/2024 Abbott Laboratories EPIC (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $179.28 General
Category: Structural Heart
04/06/2024 Abbott Laboratories EPIC (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $31.44 General
Category: Structural Heart
03/25/2024 ATRICURE, INC. ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $32.11 General
Category: CARDIOVASCULAR
03/08/2024 Abbott Laboratories EPIC (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $42.92 General
Category: Structural Heart
02/22/2024 ABIOMED Impella (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $140.46 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
01/31/2024 Medtronic, Inc. VALIANT CAPTIVIA (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $133.87 General
Category: Aortic Stent Grafts
01/31/2024 ATRICURE, INC. SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $52.59 General
Category: CARDIOVASCULAR
12/22/2023 AbbVie Inc. ALLODERM (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $14.55 General
Category: PLASTIC SURGERY
12/19/2023 Abbott Laboratories EPIC (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $23.14 General
Category: Structural Heart
11/29/2023 Medtronic, Inc. Penditure (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $16.32 General
Category: Ablation

Medicare Billing by Year

Year Procedures Beneficiaries Services Submitted Medicare Paid
2023 3 35 36 $70,397 $25,387
2022 4 57 57 $106,964 $40,443
2021 5 71 71 $103,442 $34,171
2020 2 26 26 $40,996 $16,054
Total Patients
189
Total Services
190
Medicare Billing
$116,055
Procedure Codes
14

All Medicare Procedures & Services

14 procedure records from CMS Medicare Utilization

HCPCS Description Setting Year Patients Services Charges Medicare Paid Ratio
33430 Replacement of mitral valve on heart-lung machine Facility 2023 11 12 $58,378 $21,458 36.8%
34714 Exposure of major groin artery with creation of conduit Facility 2023 11 11 $7,210 $2,026 28.1%
99204 New patient office or other outpatient visit, 45-59 minutes Office 2023 13 13 $4,810 $1,903 39.6%
33430 Replacement of mitral valve on heart-lung machine Facility 2022 15 15 $86,350 $33,544 38.8%
34714 Exposure of major groin artery with creation of conduit Facility 2022 12 12 $8,590 $2,415 28.1%
99204 New patient office or other outpatient visit, 45-59 minutes Office 2022 17 17 $6,290 $2,259 35.9%
99223 Initial hospital inpatient care per day, typically 70 minutes Facility 2022 13 13 $5,733 $2,225 38.8%
33533 Heart artery bypass, single graft Facility 2021 22 22 $83,599 $27,212 32.6%
34714 Exposure of one groin artery with creation of conduit, open procedure Facility 2021 12 12 $8,590 $2,544 29.6%
99205 New patient outpatient visit, total time 60-74 minutes Office 2021 11 11 $5,338 $2,145 40.2%
99223 Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day Facility 2021 12 12 $5,292 $2,082 39.3%
33508 Harvest of veins for coronary artery bypass procedure using an endoscope Facility 2021 14 14 $622.00 $188.44 30.3%
33533 Heart artery bypass to repair one artery Facility 2020 14 14 $40,660 $15,918 39.1%
33508 Harvest of veins for coronary artery bypass procedure using an endoscope Facility 2020 12 12 $336.00 $135.67 40.4%

About Dr. Marc Sakwa, MD

Dr. Marc Sakwa, MD is a Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) healthcare provider based in Long Beach, California. This provider has been registered with the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) since 11/17/2005. The National Provider Identifier (NPI) number assigned to this provider is 1750363552.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments database, Dr. Marc Sakwa, MD has received a total of $160,421 in payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, with $1,372 received in 2024. These payments were reported across 341 transactions from 16 companies. The most common payment nature is "Consulting Fee" ($90,624).

As a Medicare-enrolled provider, Sakwa has provided services to 189 Medicare beneficiaries, totaling 190 services with total Medicare billing of $116,055. Data is available for 4 years (2020–2023), covering 14 distinct procedure/service records.

Practice Information

  • Specialty Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)
  • Other Specialties Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)
  • Location Long Beach, CA
  • Active Since 11/17/2005
  • Last Updated 11/22/2019
  • Taxonomy Code 208G00000X
  • Entity Type Individual
  • NPI Number 1750363552

Products in Payments

  • COR KNOT (Device) $47,458
  • Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve (Device) $32,052
  • RAM (Device) $15,004
  • Aortic and Mitral Mechanical Valves (Device) $14,484
  • CoreValve Evolut (Device) $10,881
  • EPIC (Device) $7,587
  • AMPLATZER Occluders (Device) $5,600
  • Avalus (Device) $5,022
  • MitraClip System (Device) $4,530
  • Epic Stented Tissue Valve (Device) $3,367
  • Profile 3D (Device) $3,248
  • Hancock (Device) $2,474
  • Impella (Device) $817.32
  • Masters Mechanical Heart Valve (Device) $700.00
  • 3F (Device) $614.41
  • INSPIRIS RESILIA AORTIC VALVE (Device) $501.12
  • Aortic and Mitral Tissue Stented (Device) $442.07
  • Mosaic (Device) $419.49
  • COREVALVE EVOLUT R (Device) $375.62
  • Trifecta Tissue Heart Valve (Device) $359.53

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 Long Beach