Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

ROBERT ALAN AERTKER

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease

NPI
1477843290
CMS profile
1281129
Location
HOUSTON, TX

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$7,740.26

  • Reported across 211 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$284.75

8 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $284.75 8

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $141.26 4
Surmodics, Inc. $82.33 2
Biosense Webster, Inc. $61.16 2

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $3,302.40 122
PY2019 $1,145.17 32
PY2020 $189.42 3
PY2021 $819.85 15
PY2022 $1,407.73 21
PY2023 $590.94 10
PY2024 $284.75 8

Payment records · PY2024 (8)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Biosense Webster, Inc. $26.55 06/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077730128 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $34.61 11/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077730749 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $115.43 02/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138850682 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $11.49 02/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138850690 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $3.06 09/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138850700 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $11.28 10/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138850706 CMS
Surmodics, Inc. $51.08 02/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1128531558 CMS
Surmodics, Inc. $31.25 10/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1128531560 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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