Has Andrew Papez received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,814 in general payments to Andrew Papez across 35 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Andrew Papez did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Andrew Papez come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Andrew Papez

Pediatric Cardiology · Phoenix, AZNPI 1366466633

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (55.2%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 75.8% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,557 and has fallen 97.4% since, to $41 in 2025.

$3,814in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $108.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$3K
Abbott$577
Boston Scientific$196
Cardiva Medical, Inc.$70
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$33
Philips North America LLC$26
plus $18 from 1 others

$360,049in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $72,010 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.

E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$360K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3008%
Travel & lodging$2,10755%
Food & beverage$1,40837%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	24	$2,893
Abbott	4	$577
Boston Scientific	2	$196
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	1	$70
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$33
Philips North America LLC	1	$26
Irhythm Technologies, Inc.	1	$18

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.

How this compares

$3,814 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 47 pediatric cardiology providers in Arizona.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
SotalolSotalol Hcl	13	$366

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Nicholas RoblesPhoenix$2K
Saleem AlmasarwehPhoenix$2K
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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