Transmedics, Inc.: payments to clinicians
Transmedics, Inc.'s payments to clinicians fell 26% in 2025, to $629,056 across 188 people. Most of it (58%) was travel and lodging, then consulting fees (42%). The largest single recipient (Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Minnesota) received $48,000.
| Program year | Total | Payments | Clinicians paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $629,056 | 400 | 188 |
| 2024 | $851,251 | 434 | 188 |
Largest recipients in 2025
| # | Clinician | Specialty | Location | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marshall Israel Hertz, M.D. | Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease | Minneapolis, MN | $48,000 |
| 2 | Carmelo A. Milano, M.D. | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Lumberton, NC | $41,553 |
| 3 | Josef Stehlik, MD | Internal Medicine, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | Salt Lake City, UT | $40,030 |
| 4 | Maryjane A. Farr, MD | Internal Medicine, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | Dallas, TX | $39,875 |
| 5 | Sean Pinney, MD | Internal Medicine, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | New York, NY | $39,393 |
| 6 | Samer Gawrieh, MD | Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology | Indianapolis, IN | $21,000 |
| 7 | David C. Cronin II, MD, PHD | Surgery | Roanoke, VA | $18,000 |
| 8 | Adam Seth Bodzin, M.D. | Transplant Surgery | Philadelphia, PA | $16,752 |
| 9 | Hiroo Kinami, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Palo Alto, CA | $10,482 |
| 10 | Mohamed Abdullah, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Pittsburgh, PA | $7,901 |
| 11 | Ramsey Raymond Hachem, MD | Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease | Saint Louis, MO | $6,000 |
| 12 | Shareef Mohammed Syed, M.D. | Surgery | Saginaw, MI | $5,907 |
| 13 | Ali Ibrahim Own, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Cleveland, OH | $5,685 |
| 14 | Abbas Ardehali, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Los Angeles, CA | $5,226 |
| 15 | Yasuhiro Shudo, M.D. | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Palo Alto, CA | $4,969 |
| 16 | Christopher Cosentino, M.D. | Surgery | Scottsdale, AZ | $4,906 |
| 17 | Valeria Ripa, MD | Surgery | Los Angeles, CA | $3,855 |
| 18 | Steven Rudich, MD | Transplant Surgery | Cincinnati, OH | $3,553 |
| 19 | Ioannis John Demarakos, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Seattle, WA | $3,459 |
| 20 | Perveshinder Hani Grewal, M.D. | Transplant Surgery | Aurora, CO | $3,445 |
| 21 | Motaz Selim, M.D. | Transplant Surgery | Salt Lake City, UT | $3,445 |
| 22 | John A. Goss, MD | Transplant Surgery | Houston, TX | $3,375 |
| 23 | Atsushi Yoshida, M.D. | Transplant Surgery | Detroit, MI | $3,231 |
| 24 | Holly L. Graves, MD | Surgery | Philadelphia, PA | $3,208 |
| 25 | Sue Jane Fu, MD | Surgery | Stanford, CA | $3,191 |
| 26 | Alvin C. Wee, MD | Urology | Indianapolis, IN | $3,184 |
| 27 | Jacquelyn Min-Ung Yu, MD | Transplant Surgery | Stanford, CA | $3,175 |
| 28 | Denise Jennifer Lo, MD | Surgery | Atlanta, GA | $3,173 |
| 29 | Thomas Chaly Jr., M.D. | Transplant Surgery | Phoenix, AZ | $3,145 |
| 30 | Basar Sareyyupoglu, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Jacksonville, FL | $3,145 |
| 31 | Shashank S. Desai, MD | Internal Medicine, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | Falls Church, VA | $3,084 |
| 32 | Bryan Barrus, M.D. | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Scottsdale, AZ | $3,051 |
| 33 | Michael D. Rizzari, MD | Transplant Surgery | Aurora, CO | $3,030 |
| 34 | Ramiro Fernandez II | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Houston, TX | $3,013 |
| 35 | Chandrashekhar A. Kubal, M.D. | Surgery | Valhalla, NY | $3,004 |
| 36 | Bryan A. Whitson, M.D., PH.D. | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Columbus, OH | $3,000 |
| 37 | Muhammad Rabbani, M.D. | Surgery | Washington, DC | $2,787 |
| 38 | Umar Farooq, MD | Surgery | Winston Salem, NC | $2,666 |
| 39 | Esteban Calderon Saa Jaramillo, MD | Surgery | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,629 |
| 40 | Damanpreet Singh Bedi, M.D. | Surgery | Royal Oak, MI | $2,572 |
| 41 | Malay Bipin Shah, MD | Transplant Surgery | Lexington, KY | $2,554 |
| 42 | Karim Jarir Halazun, MD | Transplant Surgery | New York, NY | $2,553 |
| 43 | Steven I. Hanish, MD | Transplant Surgery | Dallas, TX | $2,533 |
| 44 | Gary Schwartz, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Dallas, TX | $2,528 |
| 45 | Ingrid Woelfel, M.D. | Transplant Surgery | Scottsdale, AZ | $2,475 |
| 46 | Jigesh A. Shah, DO | Surgery | Dallas, TX | $2,472 |
| 47 | Madhukar S. Patel, MD, MBA | Surgery | Dallas, TX | $2,472 |
| 48 | Saulat Sajjad Sheikh, M.D. | Surgery | Birmingham, AL | $2,469 |
| 49 | Shaheed Merani, MD PHD FRCSC | Surgery | Omaha, NE | $2,454 |
| 50 | Jennifer Pavone McBride, NP | Nurse Practitioner, Acute Care | New York, NY | $2,452 |
| 51 | Ahmad Saleh Alqassieh, MD | Surgery | Charleston, SC | $2,403 |
| 52 | Kristopher Croome, MD | Transplant Surgery | Jacksonville, FL | $2,402 |
| 53 | Amit Aubumbar Pawale, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Saint Louis, MO | $2,401 |
| 54 | Chun-Sing Huang, MD | Transplant Surgery | Houston, TX | $2,395 |
| 55 | Abbas A. Rana, M.D. | Transplant Surgery | Houston, TX | $2,387 |
| 56 | Giorgio A. Roccaro, MD MSCE | Internal Medicine, Transplant Hepatology | Atlanta, GA | $2,332 |
| 57 | David Faber, MD | Surgery | Atlanta, GA | $2,325 |
| 58 | Irene K. Kim, M.D. | Surgery | West Hollywood, CA | $2,319 |
| 59 | Jeffrey Alan Brink, M.D. | Transplant Surgery | Phoenix, AZ | $2,311 |
| 60 | Dionisios Vasilios Vrochides, MD | Surgery | Charlotte, NC | $2,308 |
| 61 | Yong Kyong Kwon, M.D. | Transplant Surgery | Dallas, TX | $2,305 |
| 62 | Dan Marshall Meyer, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Dallas, TX | $2,298 |
| 63 | Sergio Andres Acuna Mancilla, MD | Transplant Surgery | Birmingham, AL | $2,294 |
| 64 | Nhu Thao Nguyen Galvan, MD, MPH | Transplant Surgery | Houston, TX | $2,273 |
| 65 | Fardad Esmailian, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Los Angeles, CA | $2,268 |
| 66 | Kenneth R. McCurry, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Cleveland, OH | $2,262 |
| 67 | Lorenzo Machado, MD | Surgery | Monroeville, PA | $2,243 |
| 68 | Ayato Obana | Surgery | Columbus, OH | $2,240 |
| 69 | Christopher J. Webb, M.D. | Surgery | Scottsdale, AZ | $2,230 |
| 70 | Jose F. Barandiaran Cornejo | Surgery | Orlando, FL | $2,180 |
| 71 | Juan De Dios Deleija-Lujano | Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease | Dallas, TX | $2,173 |
| 72 | Ahmad Karim Mirza, MD | Transplant Surgery | Augusta, GA | $2,165 |
| 73 | Kondragunta Rajendra Prasad, MD | Transplant Surgery | Milwaukee, WI | $2,152 |
| 74 | David Weill, MD | Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease | Tampa, FL | $2,141 |
| 75 | Lucian Lozonschi, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Tampa, FL | $2,131 |
| 76 | Matthias Loebe, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Lexington, KY | $2,129 |
| 77 | Tomoaki Kato, MD | Transplant Surgery | New York, NY | $2,108 |
| 78 | Jesus A. Gomez-Abraham, M.D. | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Philadelphia, PA | $2,097 |
| 79 | Choon Hyuck David Kwon, M.D. PH.D. | Transplant Surgery | West Hollywood, CA | $2,082 |
| 80 | Debra L. Sudan, MD | Transplant Surgery | Durham, NC | $2,072 |
| 81 | Zhihao Li, MD | Transplant Surgery | Rochester, MN | $2,070 |
| 82 | Katharina Fetten, M.D. | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Dallas, TX | $2,069 |
| 83 | David J. Reich, MD | Surgery | Weston, FL | $2,043 |
| 84 | Colleen L. Jay, MD | Transplant Surgery | San Antonio, TX | $2,021 |
| 85 | Marie M. Budev, DO | Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease | Cleveland, OH | $2,021 |
| 86 | Sarmad Hameed Basi Alshamery, MD | Surgery | Pittsburgh, PA | $2,005 |
| 87 | Adnan Ahmad Khan, M.D. | Internal Medicine, Nephrology | Kansas City, MO | $2,005 |
| 88 | Lucian A. Durham III, M.D., PHD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Milwaukee, WI | $1,996 |
| 89 | Yoshiya Toyoda, MD,PHD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Philadelphia, PA | $1,983 |
| 90 | Venkatesh Krishnamurthi, MD | Urology | Cleveland, OH | $1,957 |
| 91 | Maia Sul Hee Anderson, MD | Transplant Surgery | Aurora, CO | $1,911 |
| 92 | Lauren E. Malinzak, M.D. | Surgery | Detroit, MI | $1,911 |
| 93 | Juan Carlos Caicedo Ramirez, MD | Transplant Surgery | Chicago, IL | $1,906 |
| 94 | Paul Schroder | Transplant Surgery | Madison, WI | $1,897 |
| 95 | Carol Weichi Chen, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Stanford, CA | $1,887 |
| 96 | Erin Flattery, M.D. | Internal Medicine, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | New York, NY | $1,871 |
| 97 | Mehmet Hakan Akay, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Houston, TX | $1,852 |
| 98 | Matthias Peltz, MD | Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) | Dallas, TX | $1,837 |
| 99 | Ahmed Nassar | Transplant Surgery | Detroit, MI | $1,834 |
| 100 | Richard Joseph Hendrickson, MD | Surgery, Pediatric Surgery | Kansas City, MO | $1,827 |
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