Angela Argento, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Baltimore, MDNPI 1518115526
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (46.3%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 32 manufacturers reported payments, led by Olympus Corporation Of The Americas at 50.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $71,358, 2.2 times the $32,100 reported in 2019. Among pulmonary disease clinicians in MD with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 474 payments — averaging $567.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$137K
- Cook Incorporated$25K
- Olympus America Inc.$16K
- Boston Scientific$16K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$12K
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- plus $53K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$80,82430%
- Speaking & faculty fees$26,12010%
- Travel & lodging$18,9977%
- Food & beverage$18,3777%
- Education$124,50146%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 183 | $136,740 |
| Cook Incorporated | 29 | $25,114 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 30 | $16,415 |
| Boston Scientific | 16 | $15,985 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 13 | $11,801 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 60 | $9,877 |
| Coaptech, Inc. | 2 | $9,850 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13 | $7,578 |
| Merck | 3 | $6,252 |
| AstraZeneca | 16 | $6,001 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 9 | $4,916 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 14 | $3,125 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $2,417 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 15 | $2,208 |
| Covidien LP | 17 | $1,747 |
| Ambu Inc. | 4 | $1,671 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $1,467 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corporation | 1 | $1,100 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 4 | $829 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 2 | $700 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 8 | $533 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $494 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1 | $440 |
| Spiration, Inc. | 1 | $440 |
| BD | 4 | $351 |
| Auris Health, Inc. | 4 | $238 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $145 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $89 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $55 |
| Body Vision Medical Inc. | 1 | $4 |
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.
- SINGLE USE SUCTION VALVE (Sterile)$104,513
- EVES EUS ULTRASOUND BRONCHOFIBERVIDEOSCOPE$42,916
- ViziShot 2 FLEX$41,579
- Olympus$26,119
- Single Use Aspiration Needle NA-U401SX$20,469
- Single Use Aspiration Needle$14,893
- GENERAL PULMONARY$12,753
- PUMA SYSTEM$9,850
- Da Vinci Surgical System$8,607
- Olympus Bronchoscopes$5,825
- Photofrin$4,816
- TAGRISSO$4,699
- Cook Medical Ciaglia Blue Rhino$3,740
- PROBE DRIVING UNIT$3,500
- Cook Medical Centesis & Drainage$3,317
- Wayne$2,681
- EVIS EXERA III BRONCHOVIDEOSCOPE$2,620
- Enhertu$2,417
- Single-Use flexible Video Bronchoscope$1,750
- Erbe VIO APC CRYO$1,651
How this compares
$268,819 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 297 pulmonary disease providers in Maryland.
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.
Other pulmonary disease in Baltimore
- Alan SchwartzBaltimore$1.3M
- Hitesh BatraBaltimore$611K
- Lonny YarmusBaltimore$582K
- Robert WiseBaltimore$389K
- Ko Pen WangBaltimore$280K
- Hans LeeBaltimore$277K
- Michael DrummondBaltimore$263K
- Jason AkulianBaltimore$231K
- Kathryn RobinettBaltimore$160K
- Sonye DanoffBaltimore$129K
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.