Andrew Meltzer, MD
Vascular Surgery · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1831204510
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $16,450 of the $20,721 with a category attached, or 79.4%. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. accounts for 92.5% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,569, 6.5 times the $1,316 reported in 2019.
Across 56 payments — averaging $370.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$19K
- Cook Medical LLC$695
- Bolton Medical Inc$464
- Medtronic$261
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$130
Across 32 payments — averaging $3236.69 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$104K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,45079%
- Food & beverage$4,05120%
- Education$2201%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 39 | $19,172 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 9 | $695 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 5 | $464 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $261 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$8,433
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$5,072
- Product in Development$3,400
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$642
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$506
- Zenith Spiral-Z$434
- Relay Grafts$277
- VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin Bioactive Surface$152
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$150
- Concerto-NV$137
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$135
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$131
- LIFESTREAM$130
- Endurant$124
- C3 Delivery System$117
How this compares
$20,721 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 105 vascular surgery providers in Arizona.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 36 | $661 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Scottsdale
- Venkatesh RamaiahScottsdale$452K
- Hasan AldailamiScottsdale$55K
- Herman PangScottsdale$34K
- Mitri KhouryScottsdale$21K
- Richard RogersScottsdale$13K
- Hara MisraScottsdale$11K
- Jeromy BrinkPhoenix$392K
- Luis LeonPhoenix$185K
- Hammad AmerMesa$169K
- Baljeet UppalSun City$166K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.